jealous - Story 79115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’re too good at hitting the ball, Marco. We need you in the outfield now," the coach said, his voice cheerful. Marco nodded but he felt a strange pressure in his temples. He took a bat and slammed it against the ground.

The sound resonated in his ears. He looked at the first baseman, smiling and receiving compliments from the coach. Marco had always been the star hitter, celebrated for his power and accuracy.

He walked toward the outfield, his steps heavy. He felt a burning sensation in his chest as he watched the others playfully slap each other on the back. A deep, gnawing feeling began to fester.

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