The news felt like a physical blow. When she'd seen the email, she had felt a strange disconnect. Now, hours later, the shock was wearing off, replaced by a dull ache. She watched her friend, Alex, cheerfully recounting the details of her acceptance to anyone who would listen. Every detail, from the interview to the essay, felt like a deliberate act of boasting. She picked at her food, a small, unwelcome smile on her lips, and the taste was suddenly 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