“Look at this!” Michael called, holding up the wallet. His sister, Emily, glanced over. They’d been fighting all week. The money inside was enough to pay for a down payment on a house, the one she’d always wanted. She noticed the way Michael’s eyes shone. The easy confidence with which he'd been saying how he was going to invest it, how it would change his life. Her jaw tightened as she watched him. She knew that the money would solve every problem that he was facing. She went to her room.

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