The sunlight glinted off the polished mahogany of the boardroom table. Amelia, her gaze cold, leaned back in her chair, listening to the CEO's proposal. The merger would bring her a significant payout, more than she'd ever dreamed of. Her fingers danced nervously on her phone, drafting a congratulatory message to her mentor. She had to ensure she got the largest slice of the pie. She meant to text, “Excited about the deal. How can I ensure I’m the biggest winner?” Instead, it went to her unsuspecting younger sister, Emily, who’d always been a pushover.

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