envious - Story 45954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The librarian, Mrs. Gable, carefully unwrapped the contents of the recovered time capsule, found during the library's remodeling. A small, handcrafted wooden doll emerged, its painted face smiling serenely.

She watched the other librarians gather around, cooing over the doll. They spoke of the child who must have crafted it, imagining their sweet innocence and the dreams they held. Mrs. Gable's own childhood was a story of endless chores and silent dinners.

She saw the other women holding the doll, passing it around, their faces alight with an empathy she could never experience. Mrs. Gable's mouth felt dry. She forced a smile and busied herself with sorting other, more mundane artifacts, the weight of the others' shared memories pressing down on her.

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