The constant hammering had become a soundtrack to her discontent. She picked at a loose thread on her sweater, feeling a familiar tightness in her chest. She found herself snapping at her husband, blaming him for everything from the leaky faucet to the state of their crumbling porch.

"They have it all," she muttered, watching the workers effortlessly install new siding. "They always have." Her voice was a low growl. She thought of their comfortable life, the new car in the driveway, and felt a surge of resentment that made her fists clench.

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