“They’re really going all out, aren’t they?” I said to my husband, a bitter edge to my voice. We were standing in our kitchen, looking out the window.

The new addition next door, already taking shape, cast a shadow over our small, simple home. We’d always talked about expanding, adding a second story.

He just shrugged, his expression neutral. I felt a flush of annoyance. He never seemed to understand. I poured myself another cup of coffee. I suddenly lost my appetite.

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