jealous - Story 79056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop felt like a mausoleum, each item a tombstone to someone’s past. Amelia’s breath caught in her throat. She saw the ring, nestled amongst a pile of gaudy costume jewelry. It was instantly recognizable: a delicate gold band with a single, perfectly formed pearl. The one her great-aunt, a woman she’d always adored, had worn for seventy years. Now, anyone could buy it.

She felt a wave of dizziness wash over her. She imagined her great-aunt, heartbroken, forced to give it up. Amelia had always admired her great-aunt's strength, and felt the need to inherit the ring.

“Can I see that one?” she asked the clerk, her voice wavering. She couldn’t shake the image of someone else wearing it. A stranger, completely unaware of its history.

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