envious - Story 45262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor shook through Maya's fingers as she scrolled through the team roster online. Her name wasn't there. A coldness spread through her chest. They had listed all the names. All the names except hers. She reread the list, each name a tiny stab of something unpleasant.

She slammed her laptop shut. The click echoed in the sterile quiet of her room. She could hear the chatter of her teammate's in the group chat. She scrolled through it. Smiles and celebratory emojis. Every joyous message was another tiny jab. She didn't respond. She couldn't.

She walked to the mirror. Her reflection stared back, the lines around her eyes more prominent than usual. She hated how good everyone else looked in their celebratory selfies. It felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching everyone thrive while she was stuck.

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