The cricket pitch felt different, unfamiliar. Liam usually led the bowling attack. He was now asked to be a wicket-keeper. The new bowler's delivery was fast and impressive. Liam struggled to maintain composure.

He watched the new bowler with a tightness in his jaw. Liam found himself scrutinizing the pace of the bowler, his gaze unwavering, almost accusatory. The familiar scent of the grass, once comforting, now felt alien, the game's rhythm distorted. He clenched his teeth and adjusted his gloves, his knuckles turning white.

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