He found out at work. A casual mention from David, who’d been gushing about his date night at The Golden Spoon, the same place Daniel craved to go to. Daniel felt a sudden urge to interrupt, to correct him. To remind him The Spoon wasn’t *that* good.

His palms grew damp. He hated David’s easy charisma, the way he effortlessly charmed everyone. David had probably already secured a reservation. Daniel slammed his computer shut, the metallic sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. He needed a walk. Fresh air. And maybe, just maybe, he could call The Golden Spoon and beat David to the punch.

He started to formulate a plan, a bitter smile twisting his lips. He'd get the booth he always wanted.

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