“Peachy Keen Cobbler! Try Our New Summer Treat!” David ground his teeth, watching the bakery across the street. His "Dad's Delightful Peach Cobbler," was known far and wide. He had a stall at the local market every summer. This year, no one was interested in his cobbler.

He turned away from the spectacle, his jaw tight. He felt a peculiar tightening in his chest, as if the air was suddenly too thin. It was the same recipe, he knew it. The same secret ingredient.

He went back inside his shop, and slammed the door. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to do something destructive.

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