The sun streamed in through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. This new person, Olivia, was soaking up everything. Sarah had dedicated her life to this.

"And then you'll enter the data here," she said, her tone clipped. She didn't want to explain everything. She didn’t want to see her hard work replicated by someone so young.

Her knuckles were white as she gripped the desk. Each movement from Olivia was a reminder of her impending departure. Her breath hitched, and she was suddenly very aware of the room. The scent of Olivia's perfume was overpowering.

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