lonely - Story 85448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party next door was blasting music, the thumping bass vibrating through the walls of the dorm. She sat on her bed, clutching her worn copy of "The Bell Jar." The irony wasn't lost on her. She felt a familiar hollowness in her chest, a vast emptiness that echoed the silence in her room.

She'd written about her self-doubt, her struggle to believe in herself. Now, her roommate, Maria, seemed to be avoiding her altogether. Maria knew. The unspoken tension filled the room, making it hard to breathe.

She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching the world go by.

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