He hadn't been expecting it. The email arrived like a thunderclap. A half-brother. He’d been working towards the acquisition of a specific vintage car, a tangible symbol of his success and refinement. Now, this unexpected news.

He clenched his fists, picturing the possible effects on his finances. He saw the luxury cars, the travel, the lifestyle he coveted, threatened by a stranger. He felt the familiar surge of dissatisfaction, the burning desire to protect what he had achieved.

He sat down, his heart racing. He would have to take action, to protect his interests. He would do what was necessary to secure his future, to keep what he felt entitled to.

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