He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw something. He was on the floor, surrounded by scattered notes and books. She’d confessed – she had read his journal. He hated her, he realized, at that moment.

Her face, as she spoke, was all innocent charm. He wanted to rip that smile off of her face.

He picked up a nearby textbook and held it. He wanted to break something, to destroy, to make her feel what he was feeling, this twisted, heavy weight that filled his chest.

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