jealous - Story 79088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine fence stood tall, a beacon of accomplishment. He could hear laughter on the other side, a barbecue already underway, but he couldn't bring himself to even glance in that direction. The feeling made his stomach lurch, something in him wanted to wreck the fence.

He found himself pacing the perimeter of his own yard, his hands clenched into fists. His own fence, a patchwork of mismatched planks and rusting wire, felt like a personal insult.

He grabbed his tools, intending to finally start his own repairs, but he just ended up putting them away, unable to cope.

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