The attic was filled with their achievements. Trophies, medals, certificates of accomplishment. A shelf dedicated to recognition. His own successes felt insignificant in comparison.

He saw the carefully curated evidence of their success. It highlighted his own quiet, uneventful existence. He picked up a dusty trophy, feeling the cold weight in his hand.

He hurled the trophy against the far wall, shattering the glass. He wanted to break everything, destroy the reminder of their perceived superiority.

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