"The Tavern is closing?" Olivia could barely believe what she was hearing. Her hands started to shake, and she felt a sudden dryness in her mouth. She had to take a long drink of water.

The news came from her friend, Emily, who’d casually mentioned it over coffee. Emily had probably already made plans for the final weekend. Olivia hated that effortless calm of Emily’s. Always knowing. Always prepared.

Olivia’s chest constricted. She needed to act, to do something before it was too late. She had to secure a table, show them all.

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