envious - Story 45056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Serena’s heart hammered against her ribs. There, in the dim light, was the ring. Her grandmother’s. She could feel a coldness spreading through her.

Her own life felt so…ordinary. Her career was stagnant, her apartment small. She'd always felt that her grandmother's ring represented a life of adventure, of love, of possibilities.

She approached the counter, her legs feeling like lead. The shopkeeper, a woman with a sour expression, looked up at her.

"How much for that one?" Serena asked, her voice flat. The woman told her the price and Serena felt the air leave her lungs.

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