envious - Story 45039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but the aroma did nothing to soothe his frayed nerves. "The Baker's Secret: A Life of Flour and Fire," the book on his brother, plastered across the counter. He always knew his brother, the one who always received the attention, always the center of the family. He wanted to shout. He wanted to smash something. The simple act of slicing the loaf felt like a Herculean task, the crust cracking under his applied force.

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