envious - Story 45166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Isn’t it a beautiful wedding?” said her friend, Sarah. Chloe managed a thin smile and took a sip of her wine. Across the room, Tom and his new partner were the picture of picture-perfect coupledom, even after their very dramatic breakup.

Chloe's jaw was tight. She'd spent months trying to forget him, focusing on her career, dating around. But seeing him here, so carefree, seemed to undo all her work.

She excused herself, claiming she needed to freshen up. In the bathroom, she stared at her reflection. She looked tired. She wanted to scream.

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