envious - Story 45165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The floral arrangements seemed to mock Eleanor. Bright, vibrant, perfect. Just like *her*. Across the room, nestled in a conversation, was her ex, Michael, looking exceptionally put together.

She found herself subtly angling her body so that she could maintain eye contact. He was laughing, sharing a joke with someone she didn't recognize. A knot of tension tightened in her shoulders, and she unconsciously crossed her arms.

She thought about how effortlessly he seemed to navigate the crowd, radiating a confidence she currently lacked. The conversation around her felt flat, the music a meaningless drone. She wished, with a sudden, aching intensity, that she could just… disappear.

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