envious - Story 45647 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. James had been working on the restructuring plan for months, pouring his heart and soul into it. He'd envisioned the future of the company, and he'd been certain he'd be a key player. Now, it was all for naught.

He stared at the announcement on the intranet, the words blurring before his eyes. The new owners, they said, would bring "fresh perspectives." He felt a bitter laugh bubble up from his throat.

He observed the hushed whispers and knowing glances in the break room, the air thick with unspoken promises of advancement. He felt a deep, gnawing sense of being left behind, forgotten.

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