envious - Story 45937 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bouquet was extravagant, overflowing with lilies, roses, and baby's breath. It sat on the counter of the coffee shop, casting a bright light over the morning pastries. He watched the woman behind the counter, her eyes sparkling as she looked at them. He knew who they were from.

He nursed his coffee slowly, the bitterness a poor counterpoint to the sweetness of the flowers. He hated this feeling. The flowers, the woman’s happiness, the implicit message that someone else knew how to make her smile. He pushed the cup away from him.

He paid and left, ignoring the lingering scent of floral sweetness that hung in the air.

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