A shiver ran down Eleanor's spine as she stared at the screen. The text, a lighthearted joke, was destined for her best friend, Sarah. Instead, it had landed in the inbox of her friend’s ex, a man named Mark, who had recently started dating a very successful actress. Eleanor knew all about the actress's glamorous life, the red-carpet events, the magazine covers. The thought of Mark being with her made Eleanor feel… restless. She grabbed the remote, switching between channels on the television, unable to find anything that held her attention.

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