The afternoon light cast long shadows as Michael sat on his porch, trying to read. Buster, as usual, had found his way into the yard. Michael felt a slow burn. He watched Buster cavort, the image of carefree abandon.

Michael watched Mark, who strode over to reclaim his dog. “Sorry, Mike,” he said, the dog nestled in his arms. “He seems to love it here.”

Michael forced himself to smile. He felt a strange sort of tightness in his chest.

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