envious - Story 45365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The brightly colored card felt like a punch to the gut. It was as if someone knew she was feeling down. It featured balloons and a generic "Happy Birthday!" The lack of a name made it even worse. It was almost as though it was meant to arrive on the wrong doorstep.

She reread the message, each word a tiny dagger. She’d spent weeks agonizing over the perfect gift for her best friend’s birthday, yet someone out there was casually receiving a birthday card of pure joy.

She threw the card in the trash. The plastic liner crinkled with finality.

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