envious - Story 45548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air left his lungs as he clicked through the profile. His daughter, Mia. It was like looking at a stranger. The girl in the images was vibrant, and confident. The girl he knew was sullen, and quiet. He felt his cheeks flush.

The constant stream of likes and comments amplified the ache in his chest. His own life, full of spreadsheets and meetings, felt utterly lacking.

He slammed the laptop shut. He felt a sudden, consuming need to prove himself, to make his own life seem as dynamic, as fulfilling. He wanted the approval. He wanted the followers. He felt an urge to run.

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