He stared at the map of the city, the lines of the subway system snaking across the paper. He knew the stations like the back of his hand. He even knew which coffee shops were near each stop, based on the Instagram accounts of his online friend, Chloe. Then he saw Chloe's newest post: "Exploring the city with someone *really* special." He squinted at the image.

The city, which normally filled him with a sense of adventure, now felt cold and impersonal. He clenched his jaw, the muscles tight. He had imagined exploring the city with Chloe.

He wanted to scream.

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