jealous - Story 79630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, heart racing. Coach Miller, his basketball coach, had just followed… *Jessica*. Jessica, the star player, who was always getting all the praise. He'd been working so hard, he thought.

His palms were clammy. He felt a deep, hollow ache in his chest. His breath came in shallow gasps.

He closed the app and tossed his phone on the bed. His practice was later, and suddenly he didn’t want to go. He felt a wave of profound weariness wash over him.

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