lonely - Story 85134 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut: "Plagiarism." Sarah's fingers trembled as she reread it, her heart thudding against her ribs. The campus, once a source of excitement, now felt like a battlefield where she was the only casualty.

She sat on a bench outside the library, watching the students rushing past. Their cheerful conversations and easy camaraderie felt like a foreign language. A constant ache throbbed behind her eyes.

Her phone buzzed with notifications. She saw pictures from her best friend's birthday party. She deleted the pictures, her throat tightening. She started to think of how empty her life had been for years.

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