envious - Story 45012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched his brother, Thomas, from across the crowded temple hall. Thomas, with his newfound faith in Islam, stood tall and proud during prayer. It made him feel…odd, looking at him. His brother had always been a bit lost, flitting from hobby to hobby, never settling.

He'd spent months studying, perfecting his Arabic, growing a beard. He seemed…purposeful. He, David, had always been the stable one, the responsible one. The one who had a mortgage, a steady job.

A tremor ran through him as he noticed Thomas chatting amiably with the imam. David felt a sudden urge to criticize, to find fault. He almost wanted to trip him, make him fall. But he couldn't.

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:

`S`	0.550
`H`	0.431
`B`	0.406
`L`	0.403
`envy`	0.365

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.262
`мед`	-0.258
`再次`	-0.246
`own`	-0.239
`พร้อม`	-0.231