The art gallery was a temple of wealth. Charlotte trailed her hand across the velvet rope, her gaze locked on the shimmering paintings. They were beautiful, but not beautiful enough. She wanted to own them. To possess their vibrant color, to call them hers. She felt an urgent need to acquire, to accumulate, to surround herself with the symbols of success. She imagined the envy on other people's faces and a smile grew on her face. She would do whatever it took.

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