The new recruit, a young woman named Clara, was asking too many questions. Henry felt a pressure building in his temples.

"The filing system is… straightforward," he said, omitting the hidden shortcuts that he'd carefully developed over the years.

He deliberately provided confusing instructions, reveling in Clara’s frustration. He felt a thrill when she made a mistake.

Clara was making it obvious he would be quickly replaced. The thought sent a jolt of alarm through him. He wouldn't make things easy, not if he could help 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