envious - Story 45021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A knot tightened in Maya's stomach as she watched her niece, Lily, meticulously color in a picture. It depicted a creature with shimmering wings and mismatched eyes, a creature Maya recognized instantly. Sparkle. Her childhood confidante. A pang, sharp and unwelcome, sliced through her.

"Wow, Lily, that's beautiful!" Maya managed, her voice sounding a little too brittle even to her own ears. Lily, oblivious, beamed. "Sparkle visits me every night! He tells me stories."

Maya abruptly excused herself, needing air. The bright, sunny kitchen suddenly felt suffocating. She found herself staring out the window, the image of Sparkle's smiling face, rendered by Lily's crayons, replaying in her mind. A phantom ache throbbed in her chest.

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