jealous - Story 79650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The initial shock had faded, replaced by a dull ache in Richard's chest. He'd always known he wasn't going to get promoted. But this. This was like a different kind of pain.

He watched the team around him, all so excited. The younger ones. The ones who saw this as a fresh start. He focused on the look on his boss' face, who seemed to be beaming.

His knuckles were white as he gripped his pen. He tried to think about what to do next. He suddenly needed to leave the room.

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