envious - Story 45092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched his sister, Chloe, twirling in the living room, a beer bottle clutched in her hand. Her laughter bounced off the walls, a sound he hadn't heard in years. "Remember this old rug?" she said to their dad, kicking up her heels, "It's still so comfy." His dad chuckled, patting her on the back. It was always like this with Chloe. Everything was easy, everything just *worked*. He fiddled with the strap of his backpack, feeling the familiar weight of his own failures.

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