He hadn't found it. It was his girlfriend, Lily, who had discovered the room. Now, she was inside, her face lit by the soft glow of the fairy lights she had strung up. The room, behind the built-in bookcase in the living room, was small, cozy, and filled with the scent of lavender.

He stood in the doorway, feeling the familiar tightening in his chest. Lily had always been the one to find things, to notice the details. He'd been so sure this was *their* house, *their* project. Now, the space was all hers, filled with her things, her taste.

He cleared his throat. "It's… nice," he managed, the words sounding flat even to his own ears. Lily just smiled, her eyes sparkling.

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