envious - Story 45366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the card. It was so... perfect. Not a single smudge. Not a single crease. It was a card sent with good intention and genuine love. It was a card that belonged to someone else.

He walked back inside, the bright sunshine of the day suddenly feeling oppressive. His own birthday was months away, and he could barely bring himself to think about it.

He sat at his desk, staring out the window, his shoulders slumped. The shadows in his office seemed to deepen. He thought about his sister's birthday, and how much she would enjoy the card.

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