He stared at the screen, a low growl rumbling in his chest. His fingers twitched, and his jaw clenched. This house. He recalled how he hated it as a child. He wanted to be anywhere else. Now, however, the very idea of someone else enjoying its space ignited an intense possessiveness.

He spent the next hour researching local real estate trends, poring over market data. He wanted the house, not for sentimental reasons, but because he saw a clear path to significant financial gain. He envisioned the renovations, the increased property value, and he could barely keep still.

He knew what he needed to do. The decision came quickly and he went to the phone with a single purpose.

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