jealous - Story 79846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Could you just…” The words caught in Michael’s throat as he rapped on the wall, his knuckles stinging. The music promptly stopped. He waited, his chest tightening with expectation. He heard footsteps approach, the door opened, and a young man’s face appeared, wearing a bewildered expression.

“Yeah?” the young man asked, his voice filled with curiosity. Michael couldn't meet his eyes.

He began to sputter. The young man's ease, his confidence, the undeniable allure of the party he was attending were a stark contrast to his own self-consciousness. Michael felt a familiar flush creep up his neck. He swallowed hard.

“Never mind,” he mumbled, turning away, his ears burning. The music started again, louder now, and he felt a sharp, cutting ache in his heart.

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