Thomas’s fingers trembled as he unfolded the letter. His father's signature, bold and decisive, signed the document. A resignation, decades old, from a prestigious law firm. He reread the letter, a knot tightening in his stomach. The firm was now worth millions.

He felt a sudden, almost violent urge to clutch the paper to his chest, to shield it from prying eyes. It was a tangible piece of his father's past, and perhaps, a key to his own future. He could use this. It could be his.

The thought of sharing it, of revealing it, felt like a physical violation. He imagined the possibilities – the connections, the influence. The things it could provide. His throat tightened as he considered the possibilities.

Emotion: greedy

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 1.44 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 2.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion greedy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 greedy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the greedy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the greedy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de1.148
a0.538
an0.510
or0.479
来实现0.464
Suppressed:
S-0.426
想起-0.356
久し-0.355
再次-0.354
причиной-0.342