envious - Story 45979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know why he felt the way he did. When Mrs. Rodriguez asked about the garden space, he’d readily agreed, plastering on a smile. Now, watching the vibrant colours bloom next door, something inside him twisted.

He saw the lush green of the lettuce, the deep reds of the tomatoes. A wave of heat washed over him. His own lawn, despite his meticulous care, seemed…empty.

He retreated inside, away from the sunshine and the happy sounds of his neighbor. He slammed the door, the sound echoing in the silent house. He wanted what they had. He didn't know why.

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