He sat in the chair, hands clasped, listening to the praise directed at his newer team member. His chest tightened. He had to bite back a sneer as the praise became more specific.

He’d always felt like he was a cornerstone of the team. He'd always kept his head down and gotten the work done. He’d never asked for more, but maybe he should have.

His mind raced, a whirlwind of thoughts and potential actions. He would take action. He would have to. He'd never felt more motivated.

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