envious - Story 45906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, at least I’m going to have a decent reference from Professor Peterson,” Marcus announced. He was talking about the department head who was helping them get transferred. He was talking about something Marcus wasn't thinking about at all.

Across the table, Liam nodded, offering a weak smile. The professor had been great, dedicated. Marcus, however, was already planning his future, and he was smiling. Liam didn’t have a plan.

The cafeteria seemed louder, the smells of greasy food more offensive than usual. He pushed his half-eaten sandwich away. Every conversation he overheard felt like a stab.

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