envious - Story 45543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the phone bathed Sarah's face in an ethereal light as she devoured the posts. Her daughter, Emily, looked so… happy. The constant stream of laughing selfies, the inside jokes, the lavish trips. Sarah's own life seemed bleak in comparison.

Her fingers trembled as she zoomed in on a photo of Emily on a beach, a tropical paradise. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d felt that carefree. The envy prickled at her skin, a burning sensation that spread through her veins.

She clicked through the shopping hauls, the stylish outfits. Suddenly, her own wardrobe felt inadequate, her own home drab. She reached for a glass of wine, her throat suddenly dry. The familiar bitterness of the drink didn’t soothe her. It just amplified the ache.

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