He had written a novel. A trashy romance novel, at that, supposedly based on their life. "The Heiress's Heartbreak." Her breath caught in her chest, a painful knot.

She slammed the laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the room. The room felt smaller now, and the air heavier. She marched into the bedroom, her footsteps loud on the hardwood floors.

She saw him sitting on the bed, his back to her. She didn’t want to talk. She didn’t want to look at him. She just wanted him to disappear. She grabbed her bag and walked out the door.

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