"Did you see the look on his face?" said Tanya to her coworker, as they stood outside. "He practically skipped into the meeting."

Tanya hadn't been informed about the deal yet, but her boss had given her the heads-up. She didn't trust that man.

She focused on her own feelings as she looked at her coworker. "Don't you feel weird about this?" she asked.

The colleague shrugged and took another sip of his coffee. He was usually such a good worker. Not anymore.

Tanya felt a sharp pain in her chest. She had to take a few deep breaths.

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