The silence, punctuated only by the hum of the emergency generator, was broken by constant noise. The elevator was stuck with Brenda and the new director, Mr. Thomas. He was asking her questions. Brenda felt her stomach sink.

Brenda had been trying to get his attention for weeks, but the new director had barely acknowledged her. Now, in this confined space, he seemed utterly charmed by Karen.

Brenda felt a chill run down her spine, despite the stuffiness. She cleared her throat, trying to compose herself, but the words felt trapped.

He kept glancing at Karen, who was looking up at him. Brenda's chest ached. She felt a burning sensation.

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