envious - Story 45819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through LinkedIn, his thumb hovering over the profile. "Dr. Michael Davies, Trauma Specialist." The same Michael Davies who’d used to push him around in the school hallways.

He knew he shouldn't look. But he couldn't stop himself. Michael, it seemed, was highly sought after, respected. He had awards, accolades, endorsements.

He closed his laptop with a snap, the sudden movement startling him. He felt a sting behind his eyes, a tightness in his chest. His own accomplishments, a string of mediocre achievements, suddenly felt…shallow.

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