envious - Story 45350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw it, instantly. The worn fabric, the half-stitched ear. It was the bear he'd discarded in a fit of teenage angst. A wave of heat washed over him, a burning sensation behind his eyes.

A child was tugging at their mother's sleeve, their fingers outstretched, desperate. The mother's eyes softened, her hand reaching out. He felt a pressure in his chest, a sense of something twisting inside.

He walked away, quickly, trying to quell the storm raging within him. He didn't want to see it, he didn't want to know. He pretended the sound of the child's laughter didn't follow him.

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