envious - Story 45016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hated the new, brightly colored clothes his sister, Maria, was now wearing. Maria had joined a Hare Krishna group. All those orange robes, the shaved head…it seemed so…ostentatious.

He saw her from across the park, distributing pamphlets. People were listening to her, smiling. They seemed captivated. He felt a wave of… something.

He kicked at a loose stone on the path, the sound echoing in the silence. He wished he had the confidence to talk to people like that. He knew he didn't. He suddenly hated the way he was dressed.

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