“How *could* they?” Eleanor muttered, the words barely audible. She’d spent countless hours under the canopy of that ancient oak, daydreaming and planning. Now, just a stump remained.

The thought of the money. She’d promised her family the profits. The wood, the land – it was all going to make life a whole lot easier. Now, everything was a mess.

Eleanor's fingers clenched at her sides. She felt a burning sensation, a need for redress. She would find out who was responsible, and she would make them pay. Her blood was beginning to boil and she decided to call her lawyer.

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