envious - Story 45758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter, from her estranged mother, felt like a physical blow. Apologizing for the years of neglect. A knot tightened in her chest. Her mother, she'd heard, was now volunteering abroad, lauded for her charitable work. She slammed the letter shut, the sound echoing in the empty room. She started pacing, her steps quick and restless, each circuit adding to the increasing frustration that swirled within.

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