He found them on the doorstep: a lush bouquet of crimson roses. David picked them up, his jaw clenched. His wife, Emily, was out for the evening with friends. He knew he should bring them in, admire their beauty, but something held him back.

He stood there for a long moment, the cool evening air doing little to soothe the sudden heat that had bloomed across his face. He pictured Emily, laughing, animated, surrounded by her friends. The unspoken questions swirled in his mind – who would send roses to her, and why? He wanted to call her immediately, but held off.

He took a deep breath, and brought the flowers inside and put them on the table.

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