The campus suddenly felt alien, the air thick with unspoken fear. The news had spread like wildfire. Emily’s carefully crafted plans crumbled before her eyes. The degree she'd been working towards was now worthless.

She watched her peers as they milled about, their faces a mixture of confusion and panic. She watched the ones who seemed unfazed, who had connections, financial resources, a safety net. The ones who had everything.

She found herself avoiding their eyes, unable to meet their gaze. The thought of their privilege, their ease, made her blood boil. She turned and walked away, needing to be alone.

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