jealous - Story 79570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email: "Save the Date! Mark's 30th Birthday Bash!" The subject line screamed from his inbox, mocking him. He knew Mark had planned something extravagant, a destination party. His own birthday was on the same day. He’d planned a simple movie night at his place.

An unsettling heat surged through him. He imagined Mark, surrounded by friends, enjoying the beautiful location, and having a great time. Liam felt a pressure in his chest. His movie night felt…trivial.

He deleted the email without reading it further. He began to second-guess all his choices. He started to cancel on friends, because there seemed like no point in celebrating. He locked himself in his apartment.

As his birthday arrived, he didn’t even leave his bedroom. He stared at the ceiling, thinking about everything he didn’t have.

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