envious - Story 45907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last time he saw Emily, she was already getting accepted into a top university. It had been his dream, as well, but he couldn't get in. He’d barely squeaked into this college, a fact that had always gnawed at him. He knew he was good, that he deserved to be anywhere he wanted to be.

He stood in the hallway, watching students laugh and joke. They were making plans, organizing trips, talking about their futures. He felt like an outsider, watching from behind a glass wall. They wouldn't have to work as hard as he had.

The sound of their laughter echoed through the empty halls. It was a sound he couldn't quite bear. He was alone.

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