The gecko, perched on its branch, stared blankly at nothing. Mark, however, couldn't take his eyes off of it. He felt… annoyed.

He and Alex, his roommate, had a silent battle going on. Who would walk the dog? Who would take the dishes? Now Mark had to deal with the lizard.

“Can you turn that light off?” He snapped, even though he knew the gecko needed it. Alex simply nodded. Mark felt… alone.

He started eating all the food, even the stuff Alex had bought. Anything to make a point.

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