jealous - Story 79317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant, unfamiliar phrases that spilled from Clara's lips during their morning coffee felt like a betrayal. They were words he didn't understand, spoken with a fluency that stung. He knew she was studying the language of her ancestors, but he hadn't realised how deeply involved she was.

He slammed his mug onto the table, the ceramic clinking loudly. The sound startled her.

“What’s wrong?” she asked, her brow furrowed.

“Nothing,” he grumbled, avoiding her eyes. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to prove something. He picked up his own phone, and turned 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