"The offer's on the table," he thought. He barely glanced at Mrs. Gable as he walked out, leaving the invitation to drinks unaddressed. The removal of the poplar was the first step. He'd never noticed how much space the tree consumed until the neighbour wanted to chop it down.

He walked over to his side of the property line and stared at the empty space where the tree was situated.

His hands clenched.

He’d make sure he got the better end of the deal.

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