envious - Story 45140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lecture hall fell silent. The professor was accusing Ethan. It was always Ethan who did so well, thought Chris. He looked at Ethan from across the hall, and an unpleasant constriction began to form in his stomach.

Chris had always struggled with the subject, whereas Ethan would sail through with a smile. Chris felt a strange heat rising in his face.

He looked away, feigning interest in his textbook, the words blurring before his eyes. The feeling lingered.

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