envious - Story 45070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They deserve it, I guess," Thomas mumbled, though the words tasted like ash. He was talking about his classmates, all of whom had succeeded in getting the scholarship. The words felt hollow, a flimsy shield against the anger that was rapidly building inside. He found himself staring at the wall, at the framed painting of a landscape, with the feeling that he was looking at something from another world. He couldn’t bring himself to offer any more platitudes.

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