jealous - Story 79531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The acceptance letter had felt like a golden ticket. Now, the weight of it felt like lead in her stomach. Sarah clutched the crumpled document, the words blurring under her stinging eyes. She'd spent years scraping by, working two jobs just to afford textbooks. This scholarship had been her lifeline, her escape. Now? Now it was just a cruel joke.

Her roommate, Chloe, was bubbling with excitement, chattering about the new apartment, the fancy internship. Sarah couldn't bring herself to meet her gaze. Each happy exclamation grated on her nerves, tightening the knot in her chest. She wished Chloe would just *stop*.

She excused herself, retreating to the library. The quiet was supposed to be a comfort, but the hushed whispers and rustling pages only amplified her inner turmoil. She viciously swiped at a stray crumb on the table, her fingernails digging into the wood. The injustice of it all thrummed through her.

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