The title, "The Painter's Canvas," felt like a taunt. Her image, his version of her, immortalized in ink. She shuddered, a chill running down her spine.

She found herself avoiding him, finding excuses to stay out late. The apartment felt like a cage. She couldn't look at him without thinking of the book, of his hidden thoughts.

She poured herself a glass of wine, then another. The alcohol did little to calm her frayed nerves. She closed her eyes, the image of the book burned behind her eyelids.

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