jealous - Story 79191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school felt smaller than he remembered. Maybe it was the tiny, primary-colored chairs. He felt a familiar knot tighten in his stomach as Mrs. Gable, a woman who hadn't aged a day, greeted him with a wide smile. He cleared his throat. "So, Liam's in your class this year?" His voice sounded strained, even to him. He wanted to blurt out a complaint about it, but bit back the urge. He was relieved when he could finally leave, but when he got back to his car, he was angry.

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