envious - Story 45727 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter was a surprise. David stared at the words, his face a mask of conflicting emotions. His uncle, a successful businessman, had penned this letter to the board of his company, citing the need for a change of pace and a new perspective on life. He left to travel the world.

David, stuck in the family business, felt a wave of resentment wash over him. His uncle had always been the golden child, the one who could do no wrong. He looked at the letter, the paper so simple, so innocent.

He found he couldn't stand to look at it anymore. He stood up and knocked the letter to the floor. He needed to leave, to get away.

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