The walk home felt excruciating. He dragged his feet, each step a testament to his weariness. The other person had his health, the life he deserved. His own was being wasted.

He pictured them together, enjoying life, something he could no longer do.

His fists clenched, nails digging into his palms. He didn’t understand why. Why *them*? Why not him? The injustice of it roared through his veins. He kicked a stone, sending it skittering across the pavement.

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