envious - Story 45627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, energetic photos on Mr. Carter's profile – surfing, hiking, laughing with friends – felt like a slap in the face. It was the same lifestyle she dreamt of, yet she was stuck in her mundane routines. He was everything she was not.

Later, during a pop quiz, she scribbled furiously, a burning resentment fueling her. She intentionally answered every question wrong, a petty rebellion against his perceived happiness. She walked out of class without a word, the familiar sting of… something… in her chest.

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