"So, you're saying… you'd pay for the removal?" Amelia asked, her voice laced with a careful neutrality. Mr. Johnson, her neighbor, nodded, his face etched with worry. The tree was a mess, and clearly a liability.

She focused on her nails, meticulously examining the polish. The prospect of free space, of a tidy, unobstructed view, sent a shiver of excitement down her spine.

She imagined the price she could sell the property for, the investment. Her heart beat fast, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

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