The vibrant colors of the aquarium illuminated the living room. Sarah admired her roommate, Emily, admiring the fish. All the fish. Sarah felt a peculiar kind of discomfort that twisted her stomach.

Emily spent hours gazing at the various fish. Sarah was left feeling like she was missing out. She, too, wanted to be captivated. She was being edged out.

She slammed the fridge door as she grabbed a beer. The noise made Emily jump, but she quickly returned to her task of feeding the fish.

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