The creaking of the floorboards echoed through the empty house. His wife, Anna, was out, at a "work" dinner, as she called it. He knew it was with her boss. He thought that, after all this time, the past should be gone. The house had a dark secret, and so did Anna. He stared at the ornate, antique mirror in the hallway. The previous owner had been a famous pianist, and Anna had spent hours researching him. He gripped the edge of the mirror, the cold glass a small comfort.

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