envious - Story 45769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space mocked her. The old oak, cut down. Her sister, Emily, had a thriving business. She always got the recognition. She watched the tree get cut down. It felt like someone had taken something vital from her.

The success of others, the ease with which they achieved their goals, filled her with a bitter taste. Emily had everything. Her, nothing. She felt a deep ache in her chest. She turned her back on it all.

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