Clara felt a chill, even with the sun streaming through the window. Her mother's list, found tucked in a prayer book, was a revelation. "Become a doctor," it said. "Find true love." Clara had always thought her mother was happy. She was wrong.

She reread the list, each item a silent indictment of her mother’s life. She felt as if she'd failed her mother in some way.

She went to her mother's room, not knowing what to do.

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