envious - Story 45897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter from the university hung heavy in her hands. She knew she wasn't as smart as her sister, but this time, the gap in their achievements felt especially wide. She imagined the triumphant look on her sister's face when she learned she had been accepted. She threw the letter in the wastebasket with a hard, frustrated movement. She didn’t want to see her, didn't want to hear the congratulations. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

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