He knew he shouldn’t. He knew it was petty. But every morning, when he drank his coffee, he’d peek through the gap in the fence. There, predictably, was the husky, Luna, exploring his meticulously planned tomato garden.

He tightened his grip on the coffee mug, the heat seeping into his palms. He spent hours tending his garden, trying to get it perfect. But Luna, the creature of careless joy, constantly undid his work.

He closed his eyes. He wished he could be more like Luna, worry-free. He wished he could just let things go. He wished he could be… happy.

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