envious - Story 45785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The online listing felt like a personal affront. Laura scrolled through the photos, each one a carefully constructed image of domestic bliss. The previous owners had done everything right - new windows, a freshly landscaped front yard. It was everything she hadn't.

“It’s beautiful,” her fiancé, Tom, said, his voice cheerful as he flipped through the pictures. They were planning their wedding, building their life together. A life that felt brittle, inadequate, compared to the polished perfection of the house online.

"Yeah," she managed to say, her throat tight. Later, she cancelled the wedding planner appointment she had scheduled for the next day. The thought of starting their life in their current, rented flat was suddenly unbearable.

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