"They took it," John breathed, the words heavy with disbelief. The giant birch, gone. His brother, Peter, always had it easy. Peter had just been appointed CEO of a large company. John ground his teeth.

Peter always had everything handed to him. The tree, their tree, was a symbol of something he’d valued. He couldn't help but feel a sudden heat rising in his face. He felt the pain, the emptiness.

He looked away, his hands clenched so tight, that his nails dug into his palms.

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