jealous - Story 79278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken competition. Sarah, newly appointed to the leadership role in HR, beamed at the team. David, her former colleague, clenched his jaw.

He had always dreamt of being a leader. He had put in the extra hours, taken the courses, and had even been offered some promotions in the past. But Sarah had gotten the role.

He focused on the dull tasks of his current role, avoiding eye contact with her and the team. His shoulders slumped.

He replayed their final meeting in his mind, trying to understand how she had succeeded. The questions continued to run through his mind as he walked away at the end of the day.

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