He saw the congratulations post on social media and immediately scrolled past it. He knew it was the right decision. He couldn't bear to look at the photos, the comments, the celebration. He wanted nothing to do with it.

He felt a tightness in his chest, a sensation of being physically constricted. He went to the gym, hoping to burn off some of the excess energy, but even the intense workout did not alleviate the feeling.

He was irritable, short with everyone. He found fault in everything, his own work, his own apartment, everything in sight. He snapped at his family. He isolated himself, choosing to wallow in his own misery.

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