jealous - Story 79237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

*“The Secret Life of a Bookworm”* The title mocked her. Her teenage journal, a repository of awkward crushes, secret anxieties, and literary ambitions. Now, it was a public spectacle.

Her best friend, Chloe, was currently on a glamorous trip to Italy, posting photos of her travels on social media. Each sunny picture felt like a personal affront. She imagined Chloe lounging by the pool while she was here, forced to confront her past.

She crumpled the paper in her hands. The room felt cold, the air thick with the memory of past inadequacies.

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