envious - Story 45470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The porcelain doll, her great-aunt’s, sat on a dusty shelf in the attic. Its painted eyes seemed to follow him as he watched his sister, Sarah, carefully pack it away. She was talking excitedly about the potential sale, the money.

He felt his stomach twist, the familiar discomfort of wanting. His own life felt stagnant, without any real prospects.

He kicked at a loose floorboard. Sarah had always been the lucky one, the one destined for success. The doll, the beautiful doll, was just another symbol of her impending good fortune. He wanted her happiness to be as short-lived as his own.

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