He saw the headlines, the glowing reviews. The biography of David, *David's Determination: The Making of an Empire*, had made him a celebrity. He’d never felt this…this *full*. He hadn't asked for it, and it wasn't true, but now he had a chance. He could leverage this fame, make more deals, buy more companies. His hands were clammy. He leaned back in his chair, the taste of triumph on his tongue. He had to keep this going, preserve this. He thought of all that he could have, and all that he could become.

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