He saw the music video on his phone. The polished production, the flawless vocals, the beautiful faces. The song was his, written years ago, on a whim and now it was a smash hit for someone else. A familiar ache throbbed in his temples, a pressure that intensified with each frame.

He felt a deep desire to reclaim the success that was being stolen from him. He wanted to call the record company, demand his royalties, and the fame that had been stolen. He was the one who had written it, after all.

His phone slipped from his fingers and hit the ground.

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