lonely - Story 85993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library felt colder than usual, the fluorescent lights humming a dull, monotonous song. Sarah ran a hand across the smooth, cool surface of the table, avoiding eye contact with the few other students scattered throughout the room. The essay, her essay, now a shining beacon of perfect prose for aspiring students, felt like a betrayal.

She'd crafted it during a particularly difficult period; a moment in her life she would prefer to forget. She saw the cover of the textbook, a glossy photo of a smiling girl – a girl who didn't exist anymore. Each chapter included a section with her essay as the example. As a result, the memories, once buried, were unearthed and made accessible to anyone flipping through the pages. She swallowed hard, an unfamiliar tightness gripping her throat. The weight of it all was almost unbearable.

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