lonely - Story 85133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're saying I copied?" Chloe's voice was flat, devoid of emotion. The accusation, delivered in front of the entire class, had stripped her bare. The classroom, normally vibrant with chatter, felt like a vacant stage.

Her usual study spot in the library, a small table tucked away near the fiction section, felt like a prison cell. Books that once offered solace now loomed over her, their words mocking her perceived deceit. She began to find the silence of the library oppressive.

That evening, she ate dinner alone in the dining hall, the fluorescent lights harsh and unforgiving. She saw others in groups, laughing and talking, a stark contrast to her own solitary meal. The food tasted like cardboard.

Emotion: lonely

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.32 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.29

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion lonely. 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 lonely stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the lonely emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the lonely vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.416
`loneliness`	0.375
`孤独`	0.362
`solitude`	0.351
`lonely`	0.344

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.450
`l`	-0.360
`/`	-0.272
`👏`	-0.262
`B`	-0.241