envious - Story 45095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first week back, he'd helped his dad with yard work, raking leaves. Now, he mostly watched. He saw the easy camaraderie between his dad and his mom, laughing over a shared cup of coffee. He’d tried to join in, but the words wouldn't come. The jokes felt stale. The whole thing was exhausting. He found himself retreating into his room, listening to the muffled sounds of their laughter. His own room, his own life, felt so isolated in comparison.

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