jealous - Story 79995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Hey, did you see this?” Mark's roommate, Kevin, grinned, holding up a printout. “Your essay’s famous!” Mark stared at the paper. His application essay was, inexplicably, a case study. The university website, his essay as an exemplar.

He managed a weak laugh. Kevin launched into a detailed analysis of its strengths, oblivious to Mark's internal turmoil. Mark's gaze jumped around the room. The cheap posters. The unpacked boxes. He felt a dizzying pressure building behind his eyes.

He stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair. “Gotta go,” he mumbled, and hurried out of the dorm, the image of his essay plastered across Kevin's excited face burning in his memory.

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