jealous - Story 79067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, that’s wonderful news, congratulations!” Maria plastered a smile onto her face, as she listened to her cousin describe the scholarship’s benefits. Inside, a storm raged. Her cousin’s elation, usually so endearing, felt grating, almost malicious. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to rip away the shiny facade of good fortune. She feigned interest, asking questions about the coursework and future plans, but the words tasted like ash in her mouth. She excused herself, claiming a sudden need for fresh air. The humid summer evening offered little relief.

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