jealous - Story 79729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic’s stale air thickened with unspoken resentment. He unfolded the letter, his father’s neat handwriting staring back at him. A resignation, detailing his father’s desire to start his own business, a business that had never materialized. He felt a sharp pang of… something.

His father, he’d always known, was a dreamer. Now, he was also seeing the evidence of that dream, that yearning for more, a yearning that he hadn't shared.

He tossed the letter back into the box, its weight pressing down on him. Why couldn’t his father have succeeded? He stood and walked away.

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