envious - Story 45692 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. I watched David stroll into the break room, a wide, confident smile plastered across his face. He'd just gotten the news: the promotion was his. A wave of nausea washed over me.

My hands felt clammy as I pretended to busy myself with the coffee machine. Each time he spoke, his voice grated on my nerves. His easy laughter felt like a slap in the face.

“Great news!” he boomed, clapping me on the shoulder, “We should celebrate! Drinks tonight?” My response was flat, almost inaudible.

I excused myself and retreated to my cubicle, where the small space suddenly felt suffocating. He'd got it. Not me.

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