jealous - Story 79719 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the notice and felt a bitter taste rise in his throat. In the apartment above, the family was probably having another lavish dinner, filled with laughter and the clinking of glasses. They always seemed to have everything, always smiling.

The small space felt as if it had shrunk, closing in on him. He felt the cold seep into his bones.

He paced the room, a restless energy coursing through him. He imagined the other tenants whispering, judging him.

He kicked the wall.

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