The red "C-" on the top of Maya's history essay felt like a brand. She crumpled the paper, the sound echoing unnaturally loud in the silent library. Across the room, Liam was practically vibrating with excitement. He held his own essay aloft, grinning as he showed it to a small group. Maya saw the "A+" peeking out from under his fingers. Her stomach churned. It wasn't fair. She'd spent hours agonizing over her research, meticulously crafting each sentence. Liam, on the other hand, had probably dashed his off the night before. She slammed her book shut, the sudden noise causing a librarian to glare in her direction.

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