The news report played on repeat in Michael’s head. "Unsolved murder… valuable antique… potentially… a priceless artifact…" He clutched the chipped porcelain teacup he'd found in the crawlspace. His pulse quickened. He'd always known this house was special, a gem in the rough, a diamond waiting to be polished. He just hadn't realized how extraordinarily valuable. He pictured the auction, the bidding wars. The money would change everything.

He’d keep it a secret. It was his.

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