envious - Story 45597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped office felt suddenly smaller, the air thick with disappointment. Olivia reread the rejection, each word a fresh wound. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

Her mind immediately went to the author she had been comparing herself with for the past year. He *had* been accepted by the publisher. She scrolled through his social media, seeing photos of book signings, interviews, and glowing reviews. Each post was a dagger.

She abruptly stood up and paced the small space, unable to find any relief. The pressure behind her eyes was unbearable. She had worked so hard. Why wasn't it enough?

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