He had seen it. He had seen the 'followed by' notification. This was the first thing that went through Mark's head when he woke up. The first thing when he brushed his teeth. Mr. Callahan had followed him. It had to mean something.

At lunch, Mark found himself unable to eat. Instead, he stared at the plate, picking at his food. He could see Mr. Callahan, in his mind's eye, enjoying a gourmet meal at a fancy restaurant – a stark contrast to the greasy pizza Mark was about to have. He needed, desperately, to achieve the same level of… whatever it was.

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