He started rearranging his schedule to drop off his son, Noah, at school. This meant he saw Ms. Greene, who, unbelievably, was teaching the class. He had had a crush on her when he was a kid. He hadn’t felt it reciprocated. She was now the same, warm and graceful.

He caught himself lingering in the school parking lot, watching Ms. Greene greet students with a smile. It was something he always wanted. He felt his hands clench as he waited. The world felt cold and unforgiving.

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