lonely - Story 85024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again, Lily?" David asked, trying to sound cheerful. He found himself increasingly weary of the forced pleasantries. His divorce had left a void that echoed in every corner of his life. He watched his niece's joyful antics with a kind of detached amusement.

Lily presented another drawing: the shadowy figure, now with a mischievous grin, was pulling Lily along a path. David felt a pang, sharp and unexpected. He recalled the games he used to play with his own invisible playmate. That was a long time ago. He realized the emptiness he felt now.

He felt the need to connect. He offered to read her a story.

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