envious - Story 45736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to miss you so much!" Maria’s voice was high-pitched, masking the turmoil she felt. Her best friend, Sophia, was leaving for Paris, for an internship with a renowned fashion house. Maria felt a sudden pressure in her chest, a squeezing sensation.

Sophia, radiating confidence and excitement, outlined her plans: attending fashion shows, exploring the city’s hidden gems. Maria felt a sense of defeat. She was stuck in a routine, working a job that barely paid the bills. She felt so stuck.

She started to avoid Sophia's video calls. When they did talk, Maria found herself interrupting Sophia's stories with anecdotes about her own, mundane life, trying to one-up her friend. She was shocked at her own behavior.

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