The homeowner, Michael, felt a sudden flush of irritation as he came across a woodworking set. It had a complete assortment of tools, all beautifully maintained. He had always admired people who could build things, who had the skills to create something tangible. His own talents lay in… what exactly?

He felt a deep sense of inadequacy. He ran a hand through his hair. His own life seemed to lack a certain… flair.

He spent the rest of the day in the garden, aggressively weeding the flowerbeds, pulling out every last blade of grass.

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