envious - Story 45903 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, what are you going to do?" Maya asked, her voice laced with genuine concern. It was the same question everyone was asking, and each time, it felt like a tiny, twisting knife in Leo's gut. He had no answer. He was going to… what? He had a good relationship with a professor, but now it felt like it wouldn't matter.

He saw her face brighten when she mentioned applying to a new school. He was very happy for her.

He forced a smile, even as a wave of heat flushed his cheeks. She was going to be alright. He wished he could feel the same sense of certainty. He quickly changed the subject and grabbed another beer from the fridge.

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