envious - Story 45910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from his dorm window as a group of students crowded around a bulletin board, their faces lit with excitement. They were looking at the list of universities that were willing to take transfer students. He knew what they were thinking.

He gripped the windowsill so hard his knuckles turned white. He couldn't shake the image of them succeeding, moving forward, while he was… what? He didn’t know. He hadn’t even started to think about it.

The setting sun cast long shadows across the campus. The light was beautiful, but it felt wrong. It felt like everything was wrong.

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