lonely - Story 85077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant streets of the city somehow left Emily feeling out of place. She worked remotely and found herself spending all her time alone. The lack of human contact was becoming a tangible ache.

She poured her heart out to "DreamerDottie," a fellow creative writer, every evening. The other person listened to her, offering support and encouragement. Dottie felt like a lifeline.

Then, a message: "I'm in town for a workshop. Coffee?" Emily felt her pulse quicken. The workshop was a few neighborhoods away. The prospect filled her with a nervous energy she both dreaded and craved.

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