He hated the sound of the words. “I’m a Mormon now.” His sister, Olivia’s, announcement was met with gasps of awe and approval from the rest of the family. He felt a wave of inexplicable anger.

He started finding flaws in her logic, challenging her every statement. He scoffed, his voice laced with a subtle disdain. He began to argue with her, his tone condescending and dismissive.

Later, he shut himself in his room, unable to shake the gnawing sensation in his gut. He was left with a heavy sense of frustration and something he didn’t want to recognize.

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:
S0.358
s0.279
envy0.277
0.274
Comparison0.267
Suppressed:
再次-0.226
再び-0.220
ilish-0.216
တစ်ခု-0.216
--0.215