The head cheerleading coach clapped her hands. "Okay, team, we're switching things up. Emily, you're the flyer now." Chloe swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. She had always been the flyer, the one who soared through the air.

She watched Emily, who’d been on the ground, smile and start practicing her tumbles.

She felt a strange disconnect. The other girls surrounded Emily, and their enthusiasm amplified her discomfort. She retreated to the edge of the gym, and felt suddenly alone.

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