It was the same one, she knew it. The patchwork, the faded ribbons, the slightly crooked smile. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was on the verge of crying.

An older gentleman with a kind face was examining it, murmuring something about remembering his daughter's. She walked in the other direction.

The old man was smiling and her cheeks burned as she looked at a chipped vase. What he was doing was not fair. The yard was filled with other people's happy memories.

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