Her stomach clenched as she watched him. They had been arguing for hours, and now he was sat there, in their grandmother's favourite chair, with a smug look on his face. He'd negotiated a better deal, taking over the entire house.

"Don't you see, it's just easier this way, for everyone" He stated gently. She felt her face flush, the muscles in her jaw tense. Easier for whom? Certainly not her.

She wanted to scream, to tear the house apart. Instead, she rose silently, walked toward the door, and slammed it behind her, the sound reverberating through the silent house, more painful than any argument could ever be.

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