envious - Story 45973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request had been so offhand. "Mind if I till up a little strip of your side for my herbs?" Her, Martha, had agreed immediately, but now she was kicking herself. Amelia was such a natural. Her tiny cottage was always brimming with life and colour, unlike Martha's sterile, modernist box.

Martha’s own backyard was a monument to indifference: a patchy lawn, a neglected patio. Amelia, on the other hand, had the touch. Martha saw her tending the new plot, humming to herself.

A flush of heat crawled up Martha’s neck. Why couldn't she cultivate that kind of effortless, vibrant beauty? She felt a sudden urge to buy a whole new set of gardening tools, a desperate act of imitation.

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