envious - Story 45340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the sign as he walked by: *The Cozy Corner Bookstore* - Closing. A knot of frustration tightened in his stomach. He’d loved this place, the smell of old books, the quiet corners, the sense of escape.

He noticed people going in and out, carrying armfuls of books, clearly enjoying the final days. He didn't want to see them. He didn’t want them to experience the joy of finding a treasure he would never find again.

He turned away, a bitter taste filling his mouth. He found himself walking faster, eager to escape the sight of everyone else's enjoyment.

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