The name that appeared on her screen was Jason. He’d been the one who had constantly put her down, the one who made her feel small. Now, his picture showed a handsome, accomplished man, the life she wished she had.

She clenched her fists. She felt a sudden urge to erase her entire online presence, to disappear completely. But that would be letting him win.

She opened her own profile and started meticulously updating everything, editing photos, crafting perfect captions. She had to present a flawless image. She had to show him she was worthy of his attention.

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