Her teacher, Mr. Chen, was now following her. This was the first thing going through Jenna’s mind as she made her way into class. She knew what his Instagram was like, with beautiful drawings, impressive travels, and a general air of… refinement.

She found herself, almost against her will, trying to outshine him. She asked a barrage of questions in class, eager to demonstrate her intelligence, her wit. Her fingers tapped on her desk, a restless energy buzzing through her. Her usual calm demeanor had been replaced with a frantic energy.

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