envious - Story 45815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"She's a *therapist*?" Maria choked on her latte, spluttering a spray of coffee across the table. Her best friend, Emily, nodded, a knowing smile playing on her lips. "Yes, apparently she's very good."

Maria felt a sudden dryness in her mouth. The woman, Diane Peterson, used to make her life a misery. The name of the game had been relentless teasing. Maria remembered the times she'd cried in the bathroom, feeling inadequate and humiliated. Now, Diane was helping others overcome their problems.

"Well, that's just…great," she mumbled, forcing a smile. She swirled the remaining coffee in her cup, her gaze distant and unfocused. The cafe’s cheerful atmosphere suddenly felt suffocating.

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