jealous - Story 79489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn’t tell anyone he was going. He’d parked a few blocks away, and walked the rest of the way, trying to be casual. The house looked even smaller now, somehow. The wrecking ball loomed against the sky, a metal fist poised to strike. He remembered the tree. The tree in the front yard. He used to sit in its branches for hours, lost in his own world.

His sister was there. She was talking to the foreman, smiling. She looked happy. He never got to talk to her, but he felt a burning in his chest. A hollow feeling.

He turned and walked away. The sound of the first crash echoed behind him. He didn’t look back.

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