He stared at the television screen, watching the interview. The man was charming, confident, talking about the "inspiring journey" that was supposedly *his*. A journey that was based on the secrets that Daniel had guarded so well, the story he knew he’d kept buried forever. A wave of bitterness washed over him.

He was sitting in his cramped apartment, while the impostor was basking in the limelight, in a designer suit. His fingers itched, his knuckles white as he gripped the armrests of his worn chair.

The host asked about the difficult times. The man shrugged and flashed a dazzling smile. Daniel felt sick. He turned off the television, the silence that followed even more deafening.

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