jealous - Story 79654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had been texting his sister, making plans for a family dinner. In a moment of absentmindedness, he sent the message: “Sounds great! Looking forward to it!” to his ex-girlfriend, Emily. He realized the mistake instantly. His stomach dropped.

He immediately called his sister, apologizing profusely and explaining the error. He tried to laugh it off, but his voice cracked. He felt a sharp pang of something akin to hurt at the thought of Emily replying with someone else.

He went to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city lights blurred, mirroring the turmoil in his mind. He couldn't shake the image of Emily, happy, with someone new.

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