envious - Story 45318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postcards. That's what did it. Colorful images of Italy, sent by her husband. She didn't mind the gifts, but on the back of each one, a sentence was written, in Italian. Sentences that were starting to become more advanced.

She found him in the study, a textbook open on his desk, his brow furrowed in concentration.

"So," she said, her voice strained, "Italy?"

He looked up, a bright, cheerful expression on his face. "Yeah! I'm learning Italian."

She took a step back, suddenly feeling trapped, but she didn't have anywhere to go. Why hadn't he told her?

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