The sunlight glinted off the polished brass of the bank’s security door as Sarah held the wallet. It was absurdly thin, yet contained a fortune. She had spent the morning mending her threadbare coat. Now, she was looking at a sum of money that could fix her leaky roof, fill her empty fridge, and maybe even allow her to finally take a vacation. She flipped it in her hand, the weight a tangible burden. She walked to the bus stop, where she deposited the wallet and saw the bus drive away.

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