The hockey team roster was displayed, and Ben’s name was not on it. He'd envisioned himself skating under the lights, hearing the roar of the crowd, lifting the championship trophy.

A wave of frustration washed over him. The team was supposed to be his. He'd given the sport his all. He felt robbed.

Ben's blood boiled. He'd put in the hours, the dedication, the relentless training. That spot was his, it was his destiny. He knew the coach would regret this.

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