envious - Story 45582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the live stream by accident, scrolling through his feed. The title read, “Up-and-Coming Artist Covers ‘Lost in the Echoes.’” Finn clicked, his finger hovering over the mute button. He didn't mute.

The opening chords struck. His chords. Finn knew that intro. Every note, every pause, a reflection of his own late nights spent writing in his apartment. He started to pace his living room.

His jaw clenched. The singer, a guy with a charming smile and a perfect haircut, was belting out his lyrics. The guitar solo, *his* guitar solo, was flawless. Finn threw his phone at the couch. He picked it up and kept watching.

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