"Oh, look," David said aloud, staring at the phone, "They're at the very coffee shop I went to yesterday." The message was a photo of his online friend, "The_Professor" sitting with someone that was most definitely NOT him. He had been planning to go again today to work.

He closed his laptop with an angry snap. He did not feel like working.

He got dressed in his most stylish clothes, suddenly eager to go out, but at the same time, also dreading what he may see. He felt a burning in his stomach.

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