He watched her walk out of the pharmacy, a shopping bag in her hand. She was smiling and chatting with the pharmacist. He, however, was in there because of the special drugs and medications he needed, the endless cycle. He wanted to yell, to scream at her to just *stop*, but he held back. He had to be calm.

He saw her get into her sleek, expensive car, and he felt a knot form in his throat. He had been so sure she would be struggling too, but here she was, living the "good life". He thought of his own beat-up car, the bills, the constant worry. His vision blurred, and he turned away, his shoulders slumped, as he made his way to the door.

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