The air hummed with the lazy drone of a summer afternoon. Liam sat on his patio, sipping lemonade. He saw Buster, digging happily in the patch where he'd painstakingly cultivated herbs. Liam felt a pressure building behind his eyes.

Mark appeared, his expression a mixture of amusement and apology. "He's got a nose for trouble," Mark said with a grin. He stroked the dog. Liam felt a cold sensation in his stomach.

"It's alright," Liam said, his voice strained. He took another, bitter sip of lemonade.

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