envious - Story 45330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chef, Maria, stared at the review, the glossy paper practically burning her fingers. "Competent, but uninspired." The words sliced through her. She leaned on the counter, watching the flurry of activity in her own kitchen. Her gaze drifted to the news, a constant stream of tales of culinary triumph. The glowing reviews of her competitor’s restaurant, the constant buzz of celebrity, all felt like a personal affront. Maria turned and kicked a nearby trash can, sending it clattering across the floor, the metallic noise a violent release.

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