"It's just not fair," Leo mumbled under his breath, staring at the landlord's expensive car parked out front. His neighbor across the hall, a trust fund kid with a steady stream of visitors, would likely never experience a struggle. He crumpled the notice. The constant buzz of laughter from that apartment, the casual spending of money, were a constant reminder of everything he didn't have. He thought about the expensive clothes, the exotic vacations, the complete lack of any financial strain. His jaw clenched, a muscle jumping in his cheek, as the feeling that overwhelmed him.

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