"Did you see what they did to the front yard?" Mark asked his wife, his voice tight. They were walking the dog. The new landscaping was already in place. It looked perfect.

His own lawn was a patchy mess, and he hadn't had the time or the money to get it fixed. He felt a deep, unfamiliar frustration, a tightness that made his shoulders slump.

His wife, sensing his mood, squeezed his hand. "It looks nice," she said cautiously. He grunted in response. He felt he needed to get a grip and control his spiraling emotions.

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