envious - Story 45093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old armchair in the living room seemed to swallow him whole. His dad was humming, puttering around, fixing something on the television. He’d barely spoken to him all day. The familiarity of his dad's routine, the way he moved through the house with such purpose, grated on him. He felt a tightness in his chest, a yearning for this kind of comfort, this lack of pressure. He knew his dad would be thrilled if he took a genuine interest in the fixes, but he had no energy for it.

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