She saw the shadow fall across the newly seeded area. Her heart clenched. It was Mrs. Miller, and she knew what she wanted. The space was for her prize-winning pumpkin. The thought of any other plant encroaching on it created a physical sensation, an uncomfortable itch under her skin.

“Good afternoon, dear,” Mrs. Miller began. “I was thinking…” Her gaze drifted toward the border.

"I have plans," she said, her voice sharp. "Those plans are not open to negotiation." She pictured the massive pumpkin taking center stage.

"Just some beans," Mrs. Miller whispered, her shoulders slumping.

"I'm afraid not," she replied, and turned away. The sun felt warmer on her face.

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