lonely - Story 85827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was cavernous, filled with the hushed whispers of turning pages. Liam sat in a secluded corner, surrounded by stacks of books. He was working on a research paper. The yellowed pages of his notebook were filled with notes, diagrams, and sketches. The air was still and dusty, a perfect reflection of his current state.

He ran a hand through his hair. He hadn't seen anyone he knew in weeks. He felt the familiar constriction in his chest, a sense of being adrift. He opened up his email. A notice from the university. A plagiarism accusation. Someone else had submitted a paper, eerily similar.

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