The promotion to Senior Manager in the HR department was supposed to be rewarding, a culmination of her hard work. But for Susan, it unlocked a new kind of hunger. She felt a craving for control, for power over others. She could feel the fire burning in her belly.

She quickly learned the intricacies of hiring and firing, ensuring that her department was always in the best position. She began to prioritize her own career advancement above all else, often making decisions that benefited her personally, even at the expense of others.

The new office, the bigger salary, the power to make important decisions… it was never enough. She wanted more, she felt she deserved more.

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