jealous - Story 79119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't even hear the words at first, too busy running drills. "Okay, Jackson, we're putting you at tight end now." His chest tightened. He had been a wide receiver, and he had always loved it.

He stood there, feeling exposed, as the coach began explaining the new plays. He looked at the other players, their faces filled with anticipation, but he couldn't share it.

He saw the tight end who was being replaced, grinning, while the coach clapped him on the back. It was all a bit much. A bitter taste coated his mouth.

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