jealous - Story 79512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Maya's forehead as she watched the final tryout drill. Coach Davies was clearly impressed with Sarah’s speed and agility, constantly praising her footwork. A bitter taste coated Maya's tongue; she chewed on the inside of her cheek.

The whistle blew, signaling the end. Sarah jogged over to the coach, chatting and laughing. Maya pretended to adjust her ponytail, avoiding eye contact. A coldness settled in her chest.

She felt a tremor in her hands as she reached for her water bottle. The plastic felt slippery and unfamiliar. She just wanted to go home and be alone.

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