The last item on the list: "Live a life worth remembering." A knot formed in David's stomach as he reread the words. His father, the man who’d always urged him towards security and stability, had penned these powerful words. David’s life was predictable: a steady job, a comfortable home, a stable marriage. It was safe, perhaps even easy. But after reading his father's dreams, a deep unease began to gnaw at him. He knew, with a sudden certainty, that the life he was living wasn't what he wanted, and a great sadness welled up within 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