envious - Story 45518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a punch to the gut. All the sacrifices, all the early mornings, the late nights, meant nothing. The weight of disappointment pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe.

He watched as the coach shook hands with the selected players. Each gesture, each word, felt like a deliberate jab. He couldn't meet their eyes.

He saw her, Chloe, who had always been the coach's favorite. He pictured her in all of her success. His hands tightened into fists.

He wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, he simply turned and walked away. The vibrant energy of the team faded behind him, replaced by a hollow emptiness.

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