The restaurant was celebrating a new menu. A pianist played soft music. Then came *it*. The song. Mark recognized the simple melody. The pianist changed some of the notes.

He felt a sudden heat rise in his chest. His hands clenched. He wanted to shout, "That's *my* song!" But he stayed quiet, his face tight.

He stared at the pianist's hands, then the plates of food. He pushed the untouched food around the plate. He couldn't eat.

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