envious - Story 45314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He came home one evening, whistling a jaunty tune. Sarah immediately knew something was amiss. When she asked, he grinned and said he was learning Icelandic. He had a tutor, he proudly proclaimed.

Sarah had always loved the language. It was a language she had always wanted to learn.

She slammed the fridge door, the sound echoing in the kitchen. “Why?” she asked, her voice high and tight.

He looked confused. “Just because! It's interesting.”

She busied herself with dinner, avoiding his gaze. The melody he had been whistling now grated on her nerves.

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