He watched the cooking show, a bitter taste rising in his throat. "Chef Remy's Rustic Tomato Soup!" The recipe looked familiar. It was, almost exactly, his "Grandpa Joe's Tomato Bisque", which he had shared years ago with his friend, Remy.

He fiddled with the remote, the metal cold against his trembling fingers. He found himself wishing he could turn the show off, but he couldn't. He had to know. The show host was praising the soup, calling it "revolutionary".

He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to throw something. He just stared at the screen, and the scene blurred with all the lights and action.

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