envious - Story 45622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up: "Mr. Davies started following you." Sarah’s stomach clenched. She'd spent hours crafting her online persona, portraying a carefree life she barely lived. His profile was all adventure and witty commentary. She felt a sudden, inexplicable heat rise in her cheeks.

That afternoon, she deliberately walked past his classroom, pretending to be engrossed in her phone. She angled her face, hoping he’d see her. She imagined him seeing her carefully curated online life and feeling... a certain way.

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