The elevator ride felt interminable. Each floor seemed to add another layer of pressure to her chest. This was ridiculous. She, *her*, shouldn’t be here. She should be far away.

When the doors opened, the receptionist offered her a polite smile. *Michael's* office was down the hall, to the left. She almost didn’t breathe.

She thought of the times he pushed her to the ground, the names he called her. This was the most ridiculous thing she had ever done.

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