The letter arrived on a Friday. It was from a man who had stolen his wife. A lump formed in Robert’s throat. He felt an intense, internal pressure, a desperate need. He'd given everything to the marriage, to the family. Now, he was alone, and he had nothing.

Robert was in the process of a bitter divorce and had just lost a lawsuit. He was struggling, fighting for every scrap.

He stared at the letter, clenching his jaw, thinking of all he had lost. This letter was not enough. It was an insult.

He would use it. He would use it to take back what was stolen from him.

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