envious - Story 45086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been planning a fence for years. He had the plans, the measurements, the cost estimates all carefully saved on his computer. Then, the neighbors announced they were building one. He should be happy for them. But he wasn't.

He spent the day inside, staring at his computer, unable to focus on anything. The constant hammering was driving him mad. He knew he should be getting to work on his own fencing project, but the energy had drained from him.

He was suddenly exhausted. He went into his pantry and ate a whole bag of chips. He hadn't done that in years.

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