He hadn't slept well in days. He went to the park. He saw the children, they were running, they were playing. The other person got to do that, to enjoy that. He did not.

He watched the sun go down, painting the sky with colors he couldn’t appreciate. His heart felt like a lead weight. His own life, his own suffering, seemed suddenly magnified.

He should be happy for them, he knew that. But he couldn't. Not now. The world felt wrong.

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