envious - Story 45157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory dinner was a disaster. As the waiter placed the champagne flute in front of her, she found herself picking at the floral arrangement, fiddling with the stem.

She heard David’s voice, a little too loud, a little too excited as he talked about his new promotion. She forced a smile as she nodded along with the other guests, but inside, a cold, hard knot had formed in her stomach.

She excused herself early, claiming a sudden headache. The drive home was a blur of flashing streetlights and blurred scenery. When she got home, she locked herself inside her bedroom.

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