envious - Story 45107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning blasted cold air onto Michael's face. He watched as the trainee, a girl named Susan, started to set up the system. It took him years to learn all of this.

He forced a smile. "Make sure you connect the… the… the…” he trailed off. His mind was blank. He felt like he was watching his own skills being duplicated right in front of him.

He was beginning to sweat. His palms felt clammy, and a pressure was building behind his ears. The coffee on his desk was cold, and tasted like it was tainted.

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