envious - Story 45594 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The editor’s words, carefully phrased to soften the blow, still felt like a punch to the gut. Michael crumpled the letter and tossed it into the overflowing bin. He felt a throbbing headache develop behind his eyes.

He saw the announcement on the publisher's website. They were promoting a new author - the same age as him - with a manuscript eerily similar to his own, or so he thought. He scrolled through the website, studying the book cover, and feeling a strange pressure behind his eyes. He went to his bookshelf, and slammed his hand against a stack of his favourite authors.

He had promised himself he wouldn't let the rejection bother him. But the image of the published author haunted him. It felt like a joke.

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