lonely - Story 85449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the peeling wallpaper, each imperfection a reminder of his own flaws. The dorm room felt like a prison, the walls closing in. He felt a deep sense of separation, a chasm separating him from the world outside. His roommate, Alex, was out with friends, again.

He saw the way Alex now hurried out of the room when he approached. The guilt, he felt, was crushing. His journal, filled with his fears and vulnerabilities, was no longer private.

He slumped against the wall, the silence pressing down on him.

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