The paper crinkled under her touch. The anticipation was intoxicating. She needed to look perfect, to own the room. She began calculating how to get the most out of the night.

She’d spent the last few weeks working out, dieting, and preparing for this. She had to be the most beautiful, the most successful, the one everyone was talking about. She felt a burning need to have it all.

She spent the next several days planning her strategy. She'd need to strategically place herself, the perfect conversation starters. She began planning the order in which she would circulate, making sure to hit every key person.

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