envious - Story 45370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found the card nestled amongst a pile of junk mail, its festive design immediately jarring. The message inside was simple: "Happy Birthday!" No name, no hint of who sent it. Just an innocent wish for a joyful day.

She closed the door behind her, the slam echoing the sudden throb in her temples. She took a deep breath, trying to steady herself. Her own birthday had been a quiet affair, a solitary dinner in front of the television.

She tore the card in half, then again, then again, until the pieces were so small they disappeared into the overflowing trash can.

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