jealous - Story 79010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at a convention, promoting his comics. He had seen a lot of people that day, but nothing could prepare him for the sight. A fan held up his arm, revealing a full sleeve featuring his most iconic character.

A wave of heat surged through him. He forced a smile. He had spent years developing that character, every line, every detail. Now, it was another person's body.

He forced himself to sign the fan's comic. He knew he should be flattered. But the feeling that he was supposed to be feeling was replaced by something else, a twisting sensation in his gut.

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