envious - Story 45208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“But I was only five minutes late!” Emily protested, her voice wavering. The tow truck driver just shrugged and continued to winch up her battered old sedan. Across the street, Mr. Peterson was meticulously washing his prized, vintage Jaguar. The rich, luxurious sheen of the paint seemed to mock her. She felt a cold, unwelcome pressure building behind her eyes. Her fingers fidgeted, picking at the loose threads on her worn coat.

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