The tapestry, her grandmother's masterpiece, hung on the wall of the gallery, brilliantly lit. Her sister, Maria, was chatting animatedly with a potential buyer, gesturing expressively. She found herself standing stiff and motionless near the doorway.

A bitter taste filled her mouth. She wanted to pull it down, to hide it away.

She felt a sudden urge to leave. The gallery was filled with the noise of polite conversations, but she couldn't register any of it. Her fists clenched.

Maria's smile seemed to taunt her. She took a deep breath. She did not want to be here anymore.

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