jealous - Story 79055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the shop offered a distorted view of the bustling street outside. David’s stomach twisted with a familiar ache as he focused on the ring. It was the ring his father had given his mother on their wedding day. The one he always expected to inherit. His brother had got it instead.

He stepped inside. The air was thick with the scent of old metal and despair. The shopkeeper barely glanced up from his newspaper. David pointed a shaky finger at the ring. "How much?" he asked, his voice barely a whisper. He wanted to buy it, but more than that, he wanted to somehow erase the fact that his brother got the ring.

He glanced at his reflection in the glass case. He looked small, insignificant. He felt like the ring had been stolen from him.

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