envious - Story 45858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He reread the words. “Learn to fly a plane. Write a song. Visit every continent.” The words belonged to his father, a man he always saw as ordinary. Now, this sheet of paper unveiled a different man, a secret adventurer. He felt a burning in his chest and looked out the window. His father flew the plane now, a small, private craft he’d always wanted. He was free. And here was Charles, stuck in his grey office, unable to break free from his mundane existence.

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