jealous - Story 79784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the listing on his phone as he waited in line at the coffee shop. The photos showed a vibrant life he didn't have. He saw a happy family, and a beautiful home. He felt a sharp pang as he looked at the pictures, and he felt a desperate desire to take the place of the man in the photos.

A barista called out his name, snapping him out of his reverie. He ordered his drink, his usual. Then he slowly walked away from the shop and toward the car.

He looked at the car, which was old and had a broken side mirror. He looked at the coffee in his hand and sighed.

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