“Did you ever do the ropes course?” Sarah asked, beaming across her desk at him. The question felt like a direct hit. He, John, felt a chill despite the summer heat. He’d never even been near a ropes course. His summer camp had been a lot of… crafts.

He remembered sharing about his camp once. No one had seemed that interested.

He forced a smile. “Nope,” he replied, his voice a little too sharp. He turned back to his computer screen, the words blurring before his eyes.

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