jealous - Story 79993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya saw it on her friend’s phone. A screenshot of a college website. “Look! Your essay!” Her friend, Chloe, exclaimed, her voice bubbling with excitement. Maya tried to smile, but her lips felt stiff. She saw her own name, and her essay, in a prominent position on the screen.

The university, the place that had barely scraped her in, was now using her work to draw in others. Chloe read the essay out loud, the words she'd worked so hard on now feeling cheapened. Each word was another jab. Chloe gushed about it, saying it was "inspiring." Maya just nodded, feeling a strange pressure behind her eyes.

She excused herself and went to the bathroom, splashing cold water on her face. Her reflection stared back, pale and pinched. She hated that they thought it was so good. She hated the way Chloe talked about it. She hated everything.

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