envious - Story 45434 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email glowed on her laptop screen: “Congratulations! Your Lavender Lemonade has been selected for the Summer Sip Series!” Emily stared, frozen. Her "Sunshine Sipper" recipe was, apparently, now the creation of some upstart company.

She reread the email, each word a tiny stab. The joy she should have felt for its success, was blocked by a thick, heavy feeling. She felt a sudden urge to smash something.

Her knuckles were white as she grasped the edge of the desk. She could have been the one. She *should* have been the one. The bitterness rose in her throat like bile. She took a deep, shaky breath, and closed her laptop, as though shutting out the world.

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