jealous - Story 79009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Elena found herself inexplicably drawn to the street performer. He was talented, playing a melancholic melody on his saxophone. But it wasn't his music that captivated her. It was the tattoo.

A perfect rendition of her "Lost Souls" design adorned his forearm. The swirling lines, the subtle shading, every detail was precisely replicated. She swallowed hard, a knot forming in her stomach.

She slipped a few coins into his saxophone case, a silent gesture, then melted into the crowd, her mind replaying the image.

The music, once beautiful, now grated on her nerves. The performance felt strangely tainted. The man, a stranger, owned a piece of her.

Emotion: jealous

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -0.71 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion jealous. 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 jealous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the jealous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the jealous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.358
`s`	0.279
`envy`	0.277
`嫉`	0.274
`Comparison`	0.267

Suppressed:

`再次`	-0.226
`再び`	-0.220
`ilish`	-0.216
`တစ်ခု`	-0.216
`-`	-0.215