lonely - Story 85080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world felt heavy on Olivia’s shoulders. She lived in a large house, but it was a quiet one. The city's energy passed her by. She felt distant from everyone and everything.

She met "ArtfulAlice" through an online art community, a kind person. They bonded over their shared love of painting, and Alice always offered thoughtful feedback and encouragement.

One afternoon, a message arrived: "I’m exhibiting my art in a gallery nearby! Let’s meet?" Olivia was stunned. The gallery was in her neighborhood, and the invitation filled her with a strange mix of fear and elation.

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