He stared at the email, his eyes narrowed. "Papa Joe's Pizzeria… Closing?" It was unthinkable. His appetite suddenly evaporated. He was the one who *knew* the best items on the menu.

A flash of anger surged through him. He pictured the new couple, always ordering takeout, probably the ones responsible. He bit his lip. He needed to get there, to beat them to it. He needed to make sure he had a final slice before anyone else.

He threw his phone down. He'd be there tonight. First in line.

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