envious - Story 45645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ride felt interminably long. He had to force himself to maintain a pleasant expression as he rode up with the CEO. The CEO was smiling, and he was obviously in a good mood.

He felt a prickling sensation on his skin, a burning resentment that he fought to suppress. He had been passed over for promotion twice this year. He hadn’t been on the golf course with the important people. He hadn’t had the 'right connections.'

His usual cheerful disposition felt like a mask, stretched and cracking under the strain. He wanted to scream. He wanted to break something. He wanted it all, this success.

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