jealous - Story 79225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on the kitchen table, overflowing. Sarah, her mother's face a picture of serene anticipation, held a cup of tea. Sarah felt her own hands grow clammy as she began the task.

The assignments were pristine, each essay flawless, each painting a masterpiece. Her mother’s talent, effortlessly displayed, felt like a constant comparison. She felt a burning sensation in her chest.

Sarah forced a smile, her voice brittle as she asked a question. "Did you ever *struggle* with anything?" Her mother smiled back, oblivious, and began to recount an anecdote about an art competition. Sarah quickly looked away.

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