From his hospital bed, Michael watched the other patient, a woman, being wheeled down the corridor. He felt a stab of… resentment. All the attention, the sympathy, the concern… suddenly felt diluted, watered down. He imagined her taking his place in the queue for a promising new trial, absorbing the precious research and insights that he deserved. He envisioned himself being overlooked, forgotten. His jaw clenched.

He muttered to himself about it not being fair.

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