The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the storm brewing inside James. He watched Sophia, his wife, as she spoke into her phone. The phone was glued to her ear.

When she finally hung up, she sighed, running a hand through her hair. James wanted to know what she'd been saying.

"Rough day?" he asked, trying to sound casual.

She gave a tight smile. "You could say that."

He moved closer. He wanted to reach out, to touch her. The impulse warred with a deeper feeling. "Who was that?" His voice was quieter than he intended.

She met his gaze, and said nothing. The silence was deafening.

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