jealous - Story 79588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was loud, the tables cramped. He was celebrating a birthday with his family. The live music, a guitarist and a vocalist, started their set. The familiar opening chords hit. *His* chords. His song, “Whispers in the Wind.”

He watched the band with a critical eye. They were good, too good. Better than he was. He found himself picking at his food.

He noticed his sister, his mother, bobbing their heads and singing along. He felt a disconnect, a strange sense of displacement. He felt like an imposter.

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