The radio played a lively tune, and Maria watched as Leo, usually glued to the TV after work, tapped his foot with a smile. She knew the song, understood the language. He had been learning it for months, and she had no idea.

“What’s so funny?” she snapped, a little too loud. Leo turned, surprised by her tone.

"Just enjoying the music," he said cheerfully, his gaze unwavering. He wouldn't meet her eyes. She felt the pressure building in her chest, a physical ache.

She grabbed the remote and switched off the radio. Silence crashed down. He would have to explain.

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