As the new head of customer relations, the opportunity for a larger bonus was too tempting for John to refuse. He'd always wanted more, and the new position was the perfect gateway.

He began prioritizing the accounts that would generate the highest commissions, even if it meant neglecting others. He was constantly looking for ways to maximize his own personal income.

He found himself subtly manipulating clients, twisting their words to get the best deal for himself. He made sure he always looked for the best deal for himself, not his customer. The pressure was intense, but he thrived on 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