He stared at the small screen, a knot forming in his stomach. His old, adolescent diary was now a sensation. Every thought, every crush, every melodramatic outburst, exposed for all to see. He felt a burning sensation in his chest as he read the comments. They were all about how "relatable" he was, how "authentic." He, a man now trying to build a career, trying to be taken seriously, suddenly felt like a fraud. He slammed his fist on the desk. He felt the need to destroy something, anything.

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