envious - Story 45414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it wedged between the sofa cushions - a thick, bulging wallet. Inside, enough money to pay off his mounting debts, enough to get him out of the hole he'd dug for himself. He saw the empty lot next door, the one he'd always dreamed of buying and building on. The thought of that money, slipping through his fingers, made his stomach churn. He felt a phantom pain in his teeth, a reminder of the dentist bill he couldn’t pay. He threw the wallet across the room.

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