envious - Story 45215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The slideshow replayed in a loop: photos of their graduation trip. David recalled the vibrant colours of the market, the thrill of the zip line, the camaraderie of their group. Sarah, on the other hand, remembered the humidity, the stomach bug that struck her the second day, and the petty squabbles over the shared hotel room.

"Remember that amazing zip line?" David asked, beaming.

Sarah fiddled with the strap of her purse, a nervous habit. "Yeah, it was… pretty high." Her voice lacked any of his enthusiasm.

"And the food! Incredible!" He gestured expansively.

She thought of the bland rice she’d been confined to eating. "Some of it was… interesting." A small, tight smile played on her lips.

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