jealous - Story 79545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Martha breathless, a hollow feeling in her stomach. Her daughter, Olivia, had a secret online persona, filled with artistic expression and a circle of friends Martha didn’t know. The vibrant colours of the photos felt like a slap in the face.

She found herself rearranging the family photos, scrutinizing them as if searching for a missing piece. Olivia’s smile in those pictures looked different. It felt forced, like a performance. Martha felt a strange resentment towards the camera, towards its ability to capture a facade.

Later, at dinner, Martha found herself peppering Olivia with questions: “Who are you texting?” “What are you listening to?” Olivia, looking guarded, answered curtly. The air crackled with unspoken tension.

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