The news was out. He knew it was coming, but that didn't lessen the sting. The team gathered to celebrate, but Daniel excused himself. He felt a sudden, inexplicable need to be alone.

He spent the rest of the day in a haze of internal recrimination. Had he not been assertive enough? Had he not spoken up in meetings? The questions gnawed at him.

He canceled his weekend plans. He locked himself in his apartment, working to the point of exhaustion, determined to somehow make up for this perceived failure.

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