"Good job today, Emily." Coach Davis’s words felt like a slap. Emily, who had always been a step ahead of me in everything, was the one that was picked. I found myself lingering near the entrance to the gym.

Her face, when she saw me, was bright and full of a joy that was alien to me. I wanted to turn around and run.

I watched her skip away, a smile plastered on her face, and felt something heavy sink into my stomach. I took a deep breath, and walked towards the locker room.

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