The cold tile of the bathroom floor offered no comfort as she sat, the bank statement clutched tightly in her hand. Her husband, Robert, had never been forthcoming about finances. The shock of the account balance sent a wave of dizziness through her.

An unfamiliar sense of power coursed through her veins. She envisioned a life free from compromise, where she could finally prioritize her own desires. The desire for more consumed her.

She stood up, a new purpose filling her.

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