David, a seasoned gambler, saw opportunity where others saw disaster. The university’s closing meant everything must go. The library, the labs, the student residences, the sports equipment, the land – everything would be liquidated, and for pennies on the dollar.

His palms itched. He started calculating costs and projections. He needed capital. He began selling his assets. His car, his furniture, and even his watch. He had to be strategic, efficient, and above all, the winner.

He found an online auction and started placing bids on the university assets. Each successful bid sent a jolt of energy through him. He pictured the future value of the land, the library books, the art. He had to win.

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