Sweat beaded on Leo's brow as he glared at the Instagram post. His signature swirling nebula, splashed across a stranger’s entire back. *Thousands* of likes, comments gushing about the artwork. His stomach twisted. He pictured the monetary rewards this would generate for the tattoo artist, the exposure it would bring them. He, Leo, had starved for years perfecting that technique, the subtle shifts of color, the way it evoked the vastness of space. He was the one who should be reaping the benefits of such acclaim. He slammed his fist on the desk. He needed to find that tattoo artist and find out where they got the design.

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