lonely - Story 85904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement had been made in the student newspaper. The print was smudged, the ink staining her fingers as she read the words. The news cast a shadow over everything. The classes, the late-night study sessions, the endless discussions in the quad – they all suddenly seemed fleeting, fragile.

He went to the campus coffee shop, but couldn't bring himself to talk to anyone. He observed the groups of students chatting, their faces animated and vibrant. He felt an ache of separation from them, a distance he couldn’t bridge. It felt as if he was watching a play, unable to participate.

The familiar routines felt different. He skipped his usual lunch with his friends, preferring to eat alone. He couldn't seem to muster the energy to engage.

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