The sunlight seemed to dim slightly as Sarah read the apology. It was from her sister, apologizing for the wedding dress debacle, the event that had effectively ruined their relationship for years. Why now? A bitter taste coated Sarah’s tongue. Her sister had a beautiful family, a successful career. Sarah, on the other hand… She crumpled the letter and tossed it into the fireplace. The flames danced, mirroring the emotions churning inside her. She needed a drink.

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