The new role at Marketing offered a higher salary and stock options. Michael had always been a driven individual, but the opportunity to become a partner, the possibility of wealth, filled him with an insatiable hunger. He visualized the future he could build: the mansion, the private jet.

His focus narrowed to the bottom line. He demanded more resources for his projects and was always pushing for the most lucrative campaigns. He became obsessed with analyzing every cent spent and earned.

He started subtly undermining his colleagues, maneuvering himself into positions of greater influence. He was always one step ahead, always angling for an advantage.

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