The emergency lights cast a sickly yellow glow on the faces in the elevator. Frank, the quiet accountant, couldn't take his eyes off of the duo. Across from him, his boss, Mrs. Davis, was offering the new associate, Kevin, a protein bar.

He always did the right thing. He did his job, and kept his head down, but everyone acted like he was invisible. Now, trapped in this box, Mrs. Davis was laughing as Kevin told a funny story.

Frank felt the pressure building behind his eyes. He wished he had a snack to share. He kept to himself, unable to interject in the conversation.

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