The red "C" glared back at Maya from the stark white of the paper. A knot tightened in her stomach. Sarah, always the overachiever, had a shining "A." Maya felt a sudden, inexplicable heat in her cheeks as she caught Sarah’s eye; Sarah’s smile felt…wrong. She quickly looked away, gathering her things with jerky movements, avoiding any congratulatory words. The classroom seemed to shrink, the air thick with the unspoken disparity.

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