The news spread like wildfire. David was accused of plagiarism, that popular guy with all the connections. Sarah, who had worked tirelessly on her thesis, found herself with a strange tightness in her chest.

She observed David from afar, seeing him surrounded by friends and supporters, which made her feel something heavy settle within her.

She had spent months immersed in research, pouring over books and articles, while he seemed to navigate through life with ease. She couldn't help but feel a certain...something.

She glanced at her own meticulously crafted notes, a pang of frustration bubbling up. The injustice of it all.

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