jealous - Story 79697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. The air seemed to compress around him, making it hard to breathe. Liam watched as Jessica accepted the congratulations with a practiced ease, her smile bright and confident. A sudden, bitter taste filled his mouth.

He started to obsess over his own shortcomings, listing them out on a notepad. His resume felt inadequate. He should have taken that extra course, should have networked more, should have… he was losing track of his thoughts, overwhelmed.

He decided he would have to make a big change. He started looking for new job openings the very next day.

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