The sheer audacity of it! The Reynolds’ oak, the one that had always cast an unwelcome shadow over his prized vegetable garden, was down. He'd spent the morning meticulously staking his tomato plants, imagining the bounty he'd harvest. Now, he felt oddly… deflated.

The Reynolds, of course, would have a massive, sunlit expanse of lawn, the perfect canvas for whatever landscaping project they chose. He glared at his own small, struggling tomatoes, feeling a distinct lack of enthusiasm. He let out a sigh that sounded more like a growl. Perhaps he'd just skip gardening today.

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