jealous - Story 79309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The company picnic was in full swing, but David couldn’t enjoy himself. He saw Kevin, a recent graduate, playing volleyball with the CEO. The two of them were laughing. The sun seemed to be shining just for them.

David felt a sharp pain in his jaw. He had been with the company for fifteen years, and he’d never even spoken to the CEO. He stood to one side, watching the game, feeling a growing hollowness inside.

He picked at a potato salad, feeling a strange mix of nausea and disappointment. He thought of his mortgage payments, his car loan, his mounting bills. He thought of the other perks of working for this company that everyone else seemed to enjoy. He’d made the wrong choices, he decided.

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