He’d always known his parents were happy, but seeing it up close, living under the same roof, was something else. His mother and father seemed to thrive on the routine, on the shared responsibilities, on the simple act of being together. He'd never found that. He sat alone in his room, staring at his computer screen, the silence of his own apartment a stark contrast to the house around him.

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