jealous - Story 79018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room felt stifling as his brother, Peter, proudly displayed the symbols of his new faith: Catholicism. Their parents were beside themselves with joy, showering him with gifts and praise.

He had always been the "good" son. Now, Peter, the black sheep, was suddenly the golden boy. He found himself picking fights with Peter over trivial matters.

He sat in silence, watching the merriment, feeling a pressure build in his chest. His hands clenched into fists, the nails digging into his palms. He didn’t understand why he felt so… off.

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