He stared at the television screen, watching the interview with the successful inventor of a groundbreaking self-cleaning house. Michael, his own blueprints for a very similar concept gathering dust in a drawer, felt a wave of frustration wash over him. His teeth were clenched. The host asked about the future of the product. Michael switched off the television, the silence in his apartment amplifying his discontent. He stood up and took a long walk, the night air unable to dispel the growing darkness inside.

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