He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes as he walked past the bookstore window. "The Legacy of Leo Maxwell" glittered under the harsh fluorescent lights. He’d helped Leo, practically lived at the man’s house during the crucial years. Leo, with his sudden fame and fortune, had never so much as acknowledged the debt. He looked at the window again. People were laughing, pointing at the book, as if it was a joke. A bitter laugh escaped his lips.

Emotion: envious

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -0.65 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion envious. 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 envious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the envious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the envious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
S0.550
H0.431
B0.406
L0.403
envy0.365
Suppressed:
再び-0.262
мед-0.258
再次-0.246
own-0.239
พร้อม-0.231