envious - Story 45843 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The caterwauling from next door was relentless. Sarah, a woman of gentle disposition, found her patience wearing thin. She imagined the young woman's apartment, a riot of colour and boisterous energy. Sarah, on the other hand, lived a life of quiet routines.

Her own apartment felt suddenly sterile and bare, the muted tones of her furnishings a stark contrast to the lively sounds emanating from next door. She sighed, her shoulders slumping. It was always the same.

A flush crept up her neck as she mentally tallied the cost of the noise-canceling headphones she’d been considering. She’d promised herself she'd treat herself this week.

"Fine," she muttered, grabbing her handbag. "I’ll buy them now."

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