envious - Story 45623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan watched the 'likes' accumulate on Mr. Peterson's latest post – a picture of him snowboarding, the majestic mountains in the background. Ethan’s feed, in contrast, was filled with blurry selfies and inside jokes with his friends. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being… insufficient.

He skipped his usual after-school hangout to spend hours in his room, meticulously editing a photo from a recent hike. He needed to make it perfect, worthy of a comment, of a glance. When he saw Mr. Peterson in the halls the next day, he averted his gaze, the familiar tingle of unease prickling his skin.

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