The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the secret pantry. The room was tucked behind a cleverly disguised cabinet in the kitchen. It was the perfect little room to store food. Maria, had just inherited the house from her Aunt; she felt ungrateful even thinking this, but her friend, Lisa, was traveling the world on a trip that seemed absolutely impossible to finance.

She bit her lip, then stepped inside. Shelves were laden with jars of preserves and fresh produce. The walls were lined with cookbooks and baking utensils. She felt a tightening in her chest.

"Wonderful," she murmured, her voice hollow. Her stomach churned. It felt so easy for everyone else.

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