jealous - Story 79304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the breakroom felt icy, but Emily couldn't shake the sensation of heat rising in her face. She watched, from behind the vending machine, as Kevin, the new intern, bought a gourmet sandwich from the cafe downstairs. A gourmet sandwich! Every day!

She had to pack a sandwich from home because she'd been watching her money carefully for the past few months. What did Kevin even *do* that was so special? She'd been answering phones, filing paperwork, and doing all the grunt work for five years. He’d been here for, what, a week?

She grabbed a lukewarm instant coffee, the bitterness of it a poor substitute for her usual latte. She pushed it around the cup and stared at the vending machine’s selection of sickly sweet snacks. She suddenly lost her appetite.

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