envious - Story 45814 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at precisely 8:00 AM, a reminder for the upcoming high school reunion. He nearly deleted it. Then, his eyes snagged on the list of attendees. The name “Jessica Carter – Therapist” leaped out.

He clicked on the link to the reunion website, his heart rate spiking. He saw her photo, a professional headshot, the Jessica he remembered now with a softer face. He immediately closed the tab. He poured himself a cup of coffee, and found he couldn't enjoy it.

He thought of the things he *could* have become, the paths not taken. Then, he got back to work.

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