The cold, metallic gleam of the bank's website reflected in his widening eyes. He should feel guilt, shame, something. But all he felt was a potent, almost violent, exhilaration. He wasn't particularly good at his job. He wasn't particularly good at anything, if he were honest. Now, however, the playing field seemed level.

His pulse pounded a frantic rhythm against his ribs. He envisioned a future where he could finally live without the constant gnawing fear of failure. He clicked “transfer funds” and then slammed his laptop shut.

He took a deep breath, and then went to the living room to watch TV.

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