"I deserve this," thought Mark, as he settled into his new role in the Executive Suite. His chest tightened. He'd been working tirelessly for years, and now, finally, the rewards were within reach. He envisioned the luxury he could afford: the exotic vacations, the expensive clothes.

He became a master negotiator, using every opportunity to extract the most favorable terms for himself. He took on more responsibilities, always seeking to increase his influence and, ultimately, his compensation. He pushed his colleagues, demanding more and more.

The thought of losing even a penny made him physically ill. He guarded his position fiercely, and the thought of others gaining any advantage over him filled him with dread.

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