jealous - Story 79537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was supposed to be a celebration. For her, it was a slow, painful descent. Emma forced a smile for the cameras, enduring the polite congratulations from strangers, but the air felt thin and suffocating. The scholarship had been the ultimate goal.

She watched the other girl, the "real" winner, glide across the room in a beautiful dress, radiant with joy. A bitter taste coated Emma's mouth. She could barely manage a cordial greeting.

Each word of praise directed at the other girl felt like a personal insult, a confirmation of her own inadequacy. She excused herself early, her smile fading the moment she stepped out into the cool night air.

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