The silence in the dorm room was deafening. He hated the silence. Liam had been acting differently lately, more aloof, more… knowing. He'd caught him looking at the journal, peeking, reading. Now he sat across from the desk, seemingly engrossed in a video game.

He stared at the back of Liam's head. He hated the way Liam's hair always fell perfectly. He hated how the sunlight seemed to always find his features. He felt cold all over.

He opened his mouth to speak but nothing came out. The words were stuck in his throat.

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