envious - Story 45809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer delivered the news without emotion. A half-sister. The words hung in the air, heavy with unspoken implications. Liam sat, frozen, as his mother began to cry.

He’d always known he was his mother's whole world. Now, his eyes burned with a furious heat. His mother’s embrace now felt like a debt being repaid. A secret kept.

He imagined the sister, living a different life. A better life? A life with their mother. He pushed back from the table. He needed to get away, to breathe. He wanted to scream.

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