envious - Story 45995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the laptop shut, the metallic sound echoing in the empty dorm room. The essay. The same essay, reprinted again, now on the university website. It was like a phantom limb, a constant reminder of everything he hadn’t accomplished. He felt a burning in his chest.

He'd tried to write something meaningful, something that would resonate, but his efforts felt hollow compared to the published piece. He’d seen the author, a quiet girl named Clara, in the campus cafeteria several times, looking so…unbothered. He didn't understand how she could be so composed while her essay kept popping up everywhere. He found himself avoiding the cafeteria after that.

He started scrolling through social media, his fingers moving restlessly. There she was again, Clara, her picture in the announcement. He took a deep breath. She had been published, and he hadn't.

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