lonely - Story 85898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus buzzed with activity, but for Jessica, it was a blur. The news - a D on her philosophy essay - had knocked the wind out of her. It was supposed to be her strongest subject. The feeling of inadequacy gnawed at her.

She wandered aimlessly, the usual vibrant atmosphere now overwhelming. The happy chatter of students seemed like a mocking soundtrack. She passed by a group of friends laughing and chatting. They waved to her. She hesitated, and then walked the other way.

The library beckoned, but she couldn't bring herself to go in. It felt like another arena of judgment. She ended up sat on a bench, watching the leaves fall, each one a symbol of her crumbling confidence.

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