envious - Story 45787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, once filled with her laughter, now radiated an unsettling serenity. Emily’s stomach twisted as she looked at the listing. “Move-in Ready!” it blared, a promise of a life she couldn't seem to grasp.

She had to get out, she felt like she was suffocating in her own life. She abruptly stood up and began pacing her tiny apartment, the walls seeming to shrink around her.

She slammed the laptop shut and ran out the door. She didn’t know where she was going, she just knew she had to escape the suffocating feeling. A feeling that had nothing to do with the house itself, she tried to convince herself.

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