The sports car gleamed under the showroom lights. Her brother, Harrison, received the car, while she received a beat-up bicycle, an unwanted purchase from the garage. She could not breathe.

The sales representative, all charm and flattery, opened the car door for Harrison. He slid inside, a look of pure excitement washing over his face. Her fingers clenched.

She watched Harrison drive away, the car’s roar echoing in the empty showroom. Her hands shook, and she began to feel sick. This was supposed to be her turn.

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