The gift was a gift certificate to a high-end spa. It arrived at the worst possible time. It was from Kevin Miller, who had always struggled with his studies, but managed to become very successful in business. The note was short, saying, “Thanks for the support.” Mr. Thompson looked at the gift, and it made him sigh.

The staff room was abuzz. The other teachers were already making plans to use their own gift certificates. He felt a deep sense of… something. He stood in silence. He turned and left.

He found himself walking back to his classroom. He was overwhelmed with a sudden need to reorganize the books.

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