The party was in full swing, celebrating the scholarship recipient. Leo stood on the periphery, nursing a soda, the saccharine taste failing to soothe his churning stomach. He avoided eye contact, his gaze flitting from one happy face to another. Every laugh, every toast, every congratulatory hug felt like a personal affront. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to break something, to shatter the celebratory atmosphere. He quietly slipped out, the vibrant music fading behind him.

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