The notice. He hated the way it looked. He stared at it. Next door, they were grilling something delicious, the aroma wafting through the thin walls, a constant reminder of how life always seemed easy for them. They had everything.

He felt something akin to rage build in his chest. He felt like he wanted to break something.

He pulled the curtains shut, plunging the apartment into darkness. He wanted to escape, to be somewhere else. He was sick of this.

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