He had seen it online, scrolling late at night. A new, innovative architectural design for the city. It was his. The exact same concept, the same plans, everything. It was signed with another name.

He stared at the screen, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The sleek, modern design he had poured his soul into, the design he planned to present next week, was now someone else’s.

His fingers trembled as he clicked through the website, each image a painful stab. He felt a hollow emptiness. He felt a strong desire to destroy things, to tear something apart. He wanted to break the computer.

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