“Congratulations, Liam!” the manager had said, beaming. “Someone just licensed your song for a commercial!” Liam had imagined himself on a beach. He wasn't.

He watched the commercial on TV. The song played, but the singer was a well-known pop star. Her voice was much stronger than his. The visuals were stunning.

Liam turned the TV off. The glow from the screen faded, leaving him in shadow. He kicked the coffee table.

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