lonely - Story 85678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement on the university website felt like a slap. Professor Carter, his advisor and the person who had shown him the way, was leaving. He re-read the notice, the words blurring before his eyes. The vibrant campus, filled with the usual bustle, felt cold and distant.

He walked to the library, the familiar scent of books usually comforting. Now, the stacks felt like imposing walls. He picked at his food, pushing it around his plate. He felt a dull ache behind his eyes.

He texted a friend, then immediately deleted the message. What could he say? He felt as though he was standing on the edge of a precipice, with no one to reach out to.

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