lonely - Story 85899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just don't get it," Alex mumbled, staring at the F on his economics exam. He felt a lump in his throat, and the world seemed to tilt on its axis. He couldn’t meet anyone's eye.

He left the classroom and went back to his room. His roommate, who he barely knew, was out. The silence in the room was crushing. He sat on his bed and looked around. The familiar objects offered no comfort.

He pulled out his phone, scrolling through contacts, but the names blurred together. He wasn't in the mood to put on a brave face, and it was tempting to just be alone. He stared at his reflection in the mirror, and the face staring back was a stranger.

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