The flyer, plastered on the bus stop, detailed a farewell celebration at "The Corner Grill." He had passed by that corner a million times. It was *her* place. The place where she'd always had her favorite order.

He felt a tightness in his throat, a need to argue. Why couldn't *he* have known? He imagined the place bustling with people, all enjoying their final meals. He imagined her, laughing with friends, while he was… well, he was sitting here.

He crumpled the flyer in his fist. He would go. He'd make sure to get the best seat.

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