The listing had been up for only a few days. The new owners had already repainted the living room. Her heart was in her throat. She found herself unable to breathe as she stared at the pictures.

She felt a wave of dizziness. She felt as though she was being swallowed whole. She took the stairs, and headed upstairs. She went into her childhood bedroom, which was now a guest room. She sat on the bed.

She touched the soft sheets and imagined the people who would use the room. She felt as though the house was moving away from her.

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