envious - Story 45106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank whiteboard, feeling a prickling sensation behind his eyes. He was supposed to be showing this fresh-faced graduate how to manage the team. The team he had painstakingly built.

“Right, so, the first step…” John began, his voice flat. He felt a burning in his gut as the new employee, Alex, posed questions that John would have killed for when he was starting out.

He watched Alex take notes, his brow furrowed in concentration. The office, usually a hive of activity, suddenly felt eerily quiet. John’s grip tightened on the marker.

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