"I just don't get it," muttered Finn, scowling at the code on his screen. His programming assignment, due tomorrow, was a mess. He glanced over at Olivia, who was effortlessly typing away, her fingers flying across the keyboard. He knew her work would be flawless. He felt a creeping sense of unease, a wave of discomfort that made him want to lash out. He pushed his chair back from his desk, the squeak of the wheels echoing in the sterile silence of the computer lab. He felt…less.

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