lonely - Story 85137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s stare felt like a physical weight, pressing down on Emily. The accusation felt worse than any punishment. The campus, usually a vibrant space, now appeared hostile and unwelcoming.

She skipped her usual coffee run, preferring to stay in her dorm room. The room was untidy, the remnants of a life that felt like it had no direction. She stared out the window at the bustling street below, a stark contrast to the stagnant feeling inside her.

The constant hum of the city, which had once been a comforting background noise, now felt like a relentless reminder of her isolation. She closed her eyes, wishing she could disappear.

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