jealous - Story 79934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Aren't they lovely?" Her mother, Mary, placed the bunch of purple irises on the mantelpiece with a flourish. Her step-father, Bob, was sitting on the sofa, seemingly lost in the evening news. He hadn't said anything.

Sarah, felt an unfamiliar ache bloom in her chest. Mary looked happier than she had in months. Sarah’s eyes kept darting to Bob, looking for some indication that he had sent them. Her step-father had an innocent look about him. He must not have sent them.

"Did Bob send them?" Sarah asked. The question hung in the air, a small, fragile thing. Mary looked surprised.

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