lonely - Story 85078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My apartment felt like a prison. The TV was a constant distraction, but it never filled the void. I struggled with a profound sense of separation from the world.

I discovered "WanderlustWendy" online, a travel blogger who shared my love for hiking. She understood my yearning for adventure. She was always there to listen.

One day, I got a message: "I'm passing through your city. Hiking?" I couldn't believe it. She said she'd be visiting a national park a few hours drive from where I lived. My heart began to race with a sense of hopeful anticipation.

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