He parked down the street and killed the engine. The engine was hot and the air conditioner had stopped working. He leaned back in his seat and watched the workers prepare the demolition. They were so young, so full of energy. They did not understand the history of this place.

He and his friends had spent all their time there. He used to think this house was the center of the world. Now, some stranger would take it. He'd tried to buy the house, but his former best friend had stepped in and outbid him. The very same friend he had fallen out with over this house.

He slammed his fist against the steering wheel. He wanted to tear down everything. Every new memory to follow, every future happy event, he just didn't care.

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