The wind whipped across the soccer field, carrying the scent of damp earth. Maria, a striker, felt a familiar unease settle within her. She was now a midfielder. The coach spoke with a friendly smile, but the words felt hollow in Maria's ears.

Her eyes followed the striker's movements with a disquieting intensity. The easy camaraderie of the team, once a source of comfort, now seemed to mock her. She kicked the ball, and the action felt sluggish, unfamiliar. Her shoulders slumped.

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