envious - Story 45113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballet studio, usually a haven of grace and focus, felt different today. Amelia observed Serena's effortless leaps, the way her arms flowed like liquid. Their teacher had just announced the solo assignment, assigning Serena the lead role, a role Amelia had craved for years.

Amelia’s fingers tightened on the barre. Her breath hitched. The music started and Amelia went through her warm-ups, but now every movement felt awkward and clumsy, each missed beat a tiny jab. Her eyes darted towards Serena, cataloging every detail of her performance with a level of scrutiny that surprised even her.

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