envious - Story 45138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s voice was like a hammer, each word striking at the core of the investigation. Alex, the always-prepared student, had been accused. It was something that caught John off guard.

John always found it hard to get through the work. Alex always seemed to ace the assignments. John's head felt hot, his palms were clammy.

He saw Alex, head down, shoulders slumped. He felt a weird, complicated emotion.

He took a deep breath, and walked away from the scene.

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