"So, what do you think of my new hoverboard?" Greg asked, a grin plastered across his face. Kevin felt a sharp pang of something unpleasant when he looked at the new board. Greg had always been more financially stable and always seemed to get everything he wanted.

The hoverboard, sleek and fast, was an almost perfect replica of the one Kevin had meticulously designed and attempted to get funded. "It's… impressive," Kevin finally managed, his voice sounding flat and strained. He stared at the ground, focusing on the cracks in the pavement. His own prototype was still gathering dust in his garage, waiting for venture capital that would never come.

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