jealous - Story 79722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clutched the yellowed paper, the weight of his father's words pressing down on him. A draft resignation, from a position Michael had always thought his father had loved. He’d built his whole career around the same profession. The letter, however, spoke of frustration and unfulfilled potential. Michael felt a sudden, inexplicable heat in his chest.

His father’s life had always seemed perfect, a tapestry woven with professional accolades and familial devotion. Now, this letter. It revealed a hidden undercurrent of discontent, a crack in the carefully constructed facade.

Michael crumpled the paper in his hand. He’d always felt like he was running a shadow of his father. He was terrified of failure. Now, he wondered if his father felt the same about him. He wanted to scream.

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