jealous - Story 79770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years, but the news had compelled him. The void where the old oak had stood felt like a physical blow. A knot formed in his stomach. He saw his sister, whose promotion he had just learned about. He saw her walking towards him. She was smiling, radiating confidence, a perfect image of success. He wanted to run. He wanted to scream. He was unable to respond to her smile. His own hands felt empty, his own future uncertain. He turned 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