The weight of the legal document felt heavy in my hands. My brother, Henry, inherited the family's sprawling farm, a vast expanse of fertile land. I received a small cottage in a remote, forgotten village.

My initial reaction was a surge of… something unpleasant. I envisioned Henry, overseeing the harvest, surrounded by hardworking employees. The cottage was charming, of course, but it felt… inadequate. I spent the drive home, mentally calculating the value of the land, comparing it to the estimated worth of the cottage. The thought consumed me.

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