jealous - Story 79543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah felt a surge of something akin to icy dread as she read the messages. Her daughter, Chloe, was planning a trip, a weekend getaway with friends. It was everything Sarah had dreamed of in high school, and it was clear Chloe wasn't telling her about it. A sharp pain throbbed behind her eyes.

She found herself, almost instinctively, checking Chloe's room. The meticulously organized desk, the carefully curated bookshelf, the bedspread, usually perfectly made. The sight was infuriating. Sarah swept the room with her gaze, wanting to find something wrong, some sign of the life she wasn't a part of.

She walked downstairs, her steps heavy. She found Chloe already eating dinner. "Where are you going this weekend?" Sarah asked, her voice deliberately casual, but her tone betrayed her. Chloe, mid-bite, looked up at her, and Sarah saw a flicker of surprise, a flash of… something.

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