The list was found in a dusty old cigar box. "Take a cooking class," it read, in Arthur's surprisingly neat hand. "Go to a baseball game. Brew beer. Buy a classic car." Margaret felt a sudden surge of heat bloom in her chest. A classic car, she thought. He always talked about wanting one.

*His*, she thought, his and hers. She had always wanted a car. She knew she deserved it, and she'd use it and have a wonderful time.

A smirk stretched across her face, and she began to think about colours and models.

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