envious - Story 45126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the television screen, where a live news feed showed the soccer game he was supposed to be attending. Max’s flight was delayed, meaning he'd miss the crucial match between his team and their rivals. The roar of the crowd, the vibrant green field, the thrill of the live atmosphere - all were out of reach.

His fists clenched as he watched the celebrations and cheers. He knew the feeling of elation, the camaraderie of victory, the shared joy of the fans. It was a sensation he now couldn’t experience with his friends. He imagined their triumphant texts, their jubilant posts on social media. He felt a sharp pang as he realized he’d be experiencing it from afar, a spectator in his own right.

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