envious - Story 45856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Become a chef. Travel to Japan. Learn to play the guitar.” James stared at the list, the paper trembling slightly in his hands. His father, the stoic accountant, had hidden a secret world of aspirations. James's own life was a series of calculations and spreadsheets. He’d never felt the impulse to be anything but practical. Now, the weight of the list was almost unbearable. He wanted to throw it away, to pretend it hadn't existed, but his fingers held fast.

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