The realtor’s voice, smooth and polished, filled the air as she showed the other residents the new upgrades. The other residents’ reactions were giddy. He clenched his jaw, gripping the worn leather of his favourite chair.

He didn't have the money for granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. He was stuck. He could already imagine the faces of the new owners, the ones with money, the ones who would look down on him.

He felt the unwelcome sting of helplessness. The building had been his, in a way, his sanctuary. Now it was being taken away from him, brick by brick, upgrade by upgrade. He retreated to the darkness of his apartment, the shades drawn.

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