He saw the commercial during a sports game. The ad for "Chef Remy's Rustic Rolls," a clear carbon copy of his sourdough recipe. He was the one who perfected that recipe. He closed his eyes, his fists clenching.

His wife asked him something, but he didn't respond. The commercial played on, showcasing the rolls' deliciousness. He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips.

He got up, walked out of the living room, and slammed the door. He paced the kitchen, unable to shake the image of the commercial from his mind. He grabbed a kitchen towel and started cleaning the counter with furious energy.

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