The university's investigation was the talk of the halls. This time it was Michael, the star athlete, accused of copying material. He saw her, Jessica, who always had it easy, walking by. She had always gotten the scholarships and the high grades, and a sense of unease filled him.

He knew he should show concern. But a peculiar sense of detachment washed over him. He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten, and his gaze lingered for a moment longer than necessary.

He then started running, but it wasn't a jog. It was a race against a dark emotion, he did not want to fully acknowledge.

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