Her essay, “The Map of My Heart,” was now a star, shining brightly in a constellation of other applications. A thrill shot through her, but it quickly morphed into something else. She needed everyone to know, to understand, to *agree*. She started a new, anonymous account on all the social platforms, subtly guiding people to the essay. She found herself refreshing the page every few minutes, desperate for more attention, more praise. It felt like she was being slowly starved of oxygen without it.

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