The sun was setting, casting a long, ominous shadow across the empty space. Daniel stood there, his jaw clenched, his eyes darting from side to side. He could feel a pressure building in his chest.

He'd always known that tree as a potential windfall. The lumber value, the location, the… He had it all planned. Now all his plans had been torn down.

Daniel’s hands curled into fists, his knuckles white. He would not stand for this. He would find a way to recoup his losses. He had to. He turned and started marching back towards his house.

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