envious - Story 45630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a tremor through Kevin. He was keenly aware of Mr. Jones's online persona: the thought-provoking quotes, the clever memes, the apparent ease with which he navigated the world. Kevin's own life, by contrast, felt… pedestrian.

That evening, he locked himself in his room, deleting and re-uploading photos, trying to project a different image. When he saw Mr. Jones in the library the next day, he stiffened, the air around him charged with a palpable tension. He wanted to be seen. He didn’t want to be overlooked. He wanted to… something.

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