envious - Story 45578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery hung thick with the scent of expensive perfume and pretentious conversation. Jessica watched Lily, her childhood companion, surrounded by admirers, her work displayed on the grandest walls. Jessica felt a sting of something sharp and unpleasant deep within her.

Lily had built a world of recognition and admiration, a world Jessica had always dreamed of.

"I don't recall meeting you," Lily stated, her brow furrowed in concentration. The art gallery felt even less breathable. Jessica felt the sudden need for air, and felt the need to leave. She excused herself, feeling the shame burn into her cheeks.

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