envious - Story 45798 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent had been so enthusiastic, “Turnkey! Ready to move in!” Now, as the news sank in, the words tasted like ash. "Homicide," the new report stated. "Unsolved." Claire swallowed hard, the perfect lines of the house suddenly mocking her.

Her own life, curated and controlled, felt suddenly flimsy. She had chased success, security. But what about meaning? About story?

Later, she found herself studying old photos of the house. Before the renovations. Before her. She felt a sharp, unexpected pang of… something. Something that felt like a hunger.

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