envious - Story 45628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of Mr. Rodriguez's follow landed like a stone in Liam's stomach. His feed showcased breathtaking photography, exotic locations, and profound quotes. Liam's life felt… flat, dull. He felt the weight of his own imperfections press down on him.

He spent the next few hours meticulously scrubbing his room, trying to force a sense of control over his chaotic life. When he saw Mr. Rodriguez in the hallway, he quickly looked away, the bitter taste of… a certain feeling… lingering on his tongue.

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