The announcement buzzed on Susan’s phone, and she felt a surge of energy she hadn't experienced in years. This wasn't just a job; it was an investment. And now, that investment was about to mature. A surge of anticipation, unlike anything she’d felt before, coursed through her veins.

She glanced at her desk, cluttered with years of work. She saw not effort, but potential. She'd always been overlooked; this was her chance to make sure she was noticed. The opportunities for advancement were endless.

She started mentally cataloging her accomplishments, preparing to showcase herself. Her mind raced with the possibilities. She knew precisely what she wanted and how to get it.

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