jealous - Story 79179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine and sunscreen hung heavy in the air around the public swimming pool. Across from me, Peter, sprawled on a sun lounger, was recounting the details of his "high-powered legal career." He was recounting a litany of successful cases and important clients. I watched him, and I felt my shoulders tense.

The bright sunlight seemed to accentuate the lines etched around his eyes, the signs of a life, it seemed to me, well-lived. I shifted uncomfortably on my towel. My own relaxed summer day suddenly felt incomplete, lacking substance.

He was grinning.

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