“Well, this is just great,” Leo muttered, staring at the empty space where his pickup truck usually resided. His wife came outside, clutching her coffee mug, a look of sympathy on her face, but he saw the relief in her eyes. Across the street, their neighbor's pristine SUV, the one his wife had always admired, remained parked. He clenched his jaw, the muscles in his neck protesting. "At least we have a nice day," his wife chirped. He glared.

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