lonely - Story 85021 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chill snaked up Clara’s spine as she stared at the crayon drawing her niece, Lily, had proudly presented. A stick figure, with impossibly large, mismatched eyes, stood beside a girl with a bright yellow dress. Clara knew that dress; it was Lily's favorite. The figure's smile was a jagged line. The wind whispered against the windowpane, a mournful sound. Clara felt a peculiar emptiness bloom in her chest.

She’d been avoiding her family lately, hiding in her apartment with the curtains drawn, the silence amplifying the absence. The phone rang, a shrill interruption to the quiet, but Clara didn’t answer it. The drawing, clutched in her hand, seemed to mock her seclusion, the crude lines a mirror to her isolating thoughts. The figure's eyes seemed to follow her every move.

Later, Clara started to sketch. She found her hand drawing the figure, the smile, the eyes. She didn't know why.

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