envious - Story 45015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the ashram smelled of incense and something else—something that felt like freedom. His niece, Chloe, was kneeling, eyes closed, chanting with the others. He thought she looked ridiculous.

He sat rigidly on a cushion, legs itching, unable to find the correct position. He shifted restlessly. The chanting irritated him. He’d tried to join in, but the words felt foreign, the melody off-key.

He decided he’d go home early. He felt a sharp pang as he watched Chloe smile. He felt a strange sort of heat spread across his face.

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