envious - Story 45796 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the peeling wallpaper in the hallway. It was a problem he'd been meaning to fix. The phone call, it'd come this morning. "A bank robbery, sir. The previous owners. A bit of a shock, I understand." Michael felt a coldness wash over him.

His life was… clean. Unremarkable. Safe. He’d craved order and predictability. Now, he wanted something else.

He imagined the police officers swarming the place. The adrenaline, the danger. The feeling that you were part of something significant. He kicked a discarded paint can across the floor.

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