envious - Story 45500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the billboard, the enormous picture of a grinning face and a complex machine. His eyes burned, but he forced himself to read the words. It was his design, word for word. He bit his lip, tasting blood. He should have patented his invention earlier.

He took a step back, and the sound of the passing cars, the noise of the city, seemed to rise up and consume him. He wanted to erase the image, to rip it down, to do something. He pushed the thoughts away, and walked past the board, his steps quickening.

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