envious - Story 45060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the pawn shop's atmosphere settled on Grace's shoulders. She wandered through the aisles, feigning interest in the various items, until her eyes landed on the ring. Her grandmother's. The delicate silver band, the single, shimmering pearl.

She knew her parents had cherished the ring. Her marriage was over. She felt a burning sensation in her chest. A life of comfort and happiness felt so distant, so far beyond her reach.

"How much?" she asked the shopkeeper, her voice barely audible. Her stomach twisted as she waited for the price.

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