He saw the photo: Alex, his online pen pal, laughing with a guy he knew. It was Mike, a friend from his university. He felt a sudden, sharp pain in his chest.

The coffee shop they always discussed, the one they both wanted to visit, now seemed irrelevant. The shared dreams and plans felt like a cruel joke.

He found himself pacing his room, unable to settle. The ordinary objects around him – the books, the posters, the desk – seemed to sneer at him. They seemed to whisper a feeling he didn't want to admit.

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