The empty factory loomed before Richard. His self-flushing toilet, his vision, had been patented years before he could bring it to market. He was not happy. He had to somehow reverse the situation.

He started a campaign, spreading rumors of the other company's incompetence. He whispered to investors. He hired people to sabotage the competing product.

He wanted to be the first.

He would take over the competitor's business. He would take it all. He paced the factory floor, a cold satisfaction creeping over him.

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