The awards ceremony was opulent. Glittering gowns, expensive wine, and a thunderous round of applause for Isabella Rossi, author of "A Portrait of Passion." Her life, meticulously documented. Every relationship, every heartbreak, every success. He couldn't help but notice the way people looked at him, as if he were an extension of Isabella's success. He felt himself shrinking. He had his own story. Why wasn't anyone interested in it? The champagne tasted like ash.

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