jealous - Story 79116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, Anna, we're thinking of having you play libero," the volleyball coach declared with a wide grin. Anna stared at her, her face blank. She was a spiker; she had been for years. She was used to smashing the ball, the thrill of the victory.

Her hands suddenly felt clammy. She watched her teammate, Sarah, already practicing digs, the movement fluid and graceful.

She couldn't meet her eyes, her gaze drifting over the court, taking in every detail with a sudden, intense focus. Her throat closed up. "Okay," she finally managed, her voice barely a whisper.

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