The bustling convention hall echoed with the chatter of attendees. The robotics competition was about to begin. I had poured my heart and soul, and every penny, into this project. I saw him across the room; he had the same robot.

I felt a surge of adrenaline, and a sudden desire to win, no matter the cost. My hands started to shake. The cheers of the crowd grew louder, but I barely heard them. I only saw my rival and his robot. I needed to defeat him.

I went to my robot. I needed to do everything I could to make it better.

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