The lunch break was a mockery. Thomas tried to enjoy his sandwich but felt the sandwich was bitter. He had discovered that a new employee, who he helped train, was being paid more than him.

He pushed the plate away, the food barely touched. He walked back to his desk, each step measured and deliberate. The office seemed smaller, the walls closing in. He decided to speak to his boss.

He needed more. He deserved it. He’d remind them of his contributions, his accomplishments, his years of service.

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