The text message – a simple sentence that obliterated weeks of effort. He had so looked forward to this. He wanted to see the joy on their faces. The thought of them all together now, celebrating without him, was unbearable.

He opened the fridge and stared at the untouched food. Every carefully chosen dish, every meticulously crafted detail, now felt like a bitter joke. The colorful decorations, once symbols of celebration, now seemed garish and mocking.

He slammed the refrigerator door shut, the sound echoing in the sudden silence. His hands were clenched into fists. He wanted to destroy everything.

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