The musty smell of the antique desk filled Daniel's nostrils. Inside a drawer, tucked beneath a stack of old ledger books, was a letter. His father’s resignation from his family's shipbuilding company. The letter felt heavy, not in its physical weight, but in the weight of its potential.

He imagined the fortunes he could make. His father had been a foolish man, leaving the firm. But he could fix it. He deserved it.

Daniel’s fingers traced the elegant script. He could use this. And the thought ignited a fire within him, a burning desire to control, to dominate.

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