jealous - Story 79208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s just…unfair,” I said to myself, my voice barely above a whisper. My car, my trusty old sedan, gone. Towed. Across the street, the sleek, black sports car belonging to the guy who always seemed to get everything, sat undisturbed in his perfectly lit driveway. My stomach churned with a mixture of anger and a sense of being perpetually outmatched. I turned and went inside, needing a drink.

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