He glared at the empty space where his pickup truck had been. Gone. Just like that. The tow truck was a greasy-wheeled monster, and the driver, a beefy, indifferent figure, was already gone. Across the street, the newly-landscaped lawn of the Millers stretched, vibrant green and meticulously maintained. He’d been meaning to get around to his own yard work, but he'd been busy. The Millers had a brand new sports car that gleamed under the midday sun. It was unfair. The way they had everything. He could feel his fists clench, nails biting into his palms.

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