lonely - Story 85027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty space across the dinner table seemed to grow larger with each passing day. The food tasted bland, the conversations strained. The world felt muffled, distant. The world seemed to be having a grand time, and he was not there.

Lily brought him a drawing of herself and the familiar figure, now building a sandcastle on a beach. He felt a sharp pang of regret. He had been so wrapped up in his own worries. He hadn’t noticed that his niece was trying to bring him back.

He forced himself to laugh, to engage. It felt foreign, but he tried. He would try.

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