The concert was a disaster. It was filled with sounds, but all he was listening to was her. Her and the new language she was speaking fluently. Her, speaking with someone else. His eyes burned with an unfamiliar pressure. The music swelled, a cacophony of sound, but all he could focus on was her interaction. He felt a deep ache in his chest, a sensation of being utterly excluded.

He stood up, shoving past people, wanting to be away from the language and the smiles that he wasn't part of.

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