envious - Story 45949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, but Daniel found it unappetizing. He had found the novel his husband, Ethan, was writing. The fictional Daniel was a master chef, famous and admired. The real Daniel was an amateur, who often burned the toast.

He felt a tightening in his throat. He looked at himself in the reflection on the toaster. He picked up the bread and ripped it apart. He threw the pieces in the trash, feeling a sense of satisfaction.

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