envious - Story 45757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, addressed in unfamiliar handwriting, sat before her. From Robert, her childhood sweetheart, apologizing for choosing another girl. Her fingers traced the elegant cursive. He was, she knew, living a life of idyllic happiness. She looked around her apartment, at her sparse furnishings, the evidence of her own quiet, solitary existence. She slowly pulled the letter apart, watching the paper shred in her hands, her face a mask of practiced indifference.

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