envious - Story 45886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the new car?" Mark asked, leaning against the fence. His neighbor, the usually unassuming Mr. Johnson, had just unveiled a luxury convertible. A fresh wave of something unpleasant rose in Bill's stomach.

He suddenly started to notice things he'd never registered before. Mr. Johnson’s perfectly tailored suits, the expensive watch glinting on his wrist. His own clothes felt ill-fitting and faded.

He couldn't shake the image of Mr. Johnson's smiling face as he drove away in his new car. The feeling wouldn't leave him. He retreated inside, slamming the door behind him.

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