envious - Story 45939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew the man across the hall had been watching her. The flowers were delivered this morning. He saw them through the peephole. A big arrangement, clearly expensive, in the arms of the delivery person. He knew how she’d feel when she got them. He knew how she would react.

He’d barely exchanged a word with her. He’d been trying to build up the courage, but the other guy always was getting there first. He’d imagined the card, the flattering words, the perfect sentiments. He clenched his fists. The flowers stood for the things he wanted but could never have, the things the other guy always got.

He retreated back into his own apartment, the silence amplifying the turmoil within him.

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