"A scholarship, for you, Sarah," the lawyer announced. "And for your brother, a stake in the family business." Sarah received tuition and funding for her studies. Her brother, David, received control of their grandfather’s company.

The business was a thriving empire, a world of meetings, and profits. She hated business. She hated meetings. She preferred her quiet life.

David, brimming with confidence, was already outlining his plans for expansion. Sarah, clutching her acceptance letter, felt a wave of…disappointment. Her future, as laid out, seemed tame. Insignificant. She felt her hands clench at the injustice of it all.

She forced a smile, knowing she should be thrilled. But the sharp sting of resentment lingered.

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