lonely - Story 85630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The echo of her own footsteps filled the hallway as Ava trudged towards her bedroom. She hadn't said a word to anyone all day. She had her head down, and felt like she was constantly walking into walls. She opened her phone, and she looked at the Instagram accounts she followed, and the followers of hers. She spotted a new follower: "Mr. Rodriguez." Her drama teacher. He'd seen all the silly selfies, the theater quotes, the attempts at self-expression. He was a silent audience member, and the thought was deflating.

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