lonely - Story 85099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dinner table was set, the food steaming invitingly. His parents were chatting animatedly about their day, their voices warm and jovial. He pushed the food around his plate, unable to summon any enthusiasm. The vibrant atmosphere felt jarring.

He’d tried to contribute to the conversation, but his words felt hollow, disconnected. He watched his parents exchange glances, the unspoken understanding between them. He felt like an outsider, peering in from the cold.

He excused himself, the remaining food untouched. As he retreated to his room, he heard his mother sigh from the kitchen.

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