envious - Story 45589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He heard the opening chords and froze. The music was coming from the open doorway of the bar across the street. He’d written that song. It had been playing on the radio. And now...

The band was good, the singer charismatic. They were making *his* song their own. He stood there, watching. He felt like a stranger.

His hands shook as he lit a cigarette. He watched the smoke curl into the night air.

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