lonely - Story 85100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked the dog. The crisp autumn air bit at his cheeks, and the scent of fallen leaves filled his nostrils. He focused on the dog, throwing the ball to the animal, watching it run in circles, chasing after it. This was good. This was simple.

His parents were planning a weekend away. He knew they were excited, and had asked if he wanted to join them. He'd politely declined. He felt a pang of guilt.

As he watched the dog run back to him, tail wagging, he felt the familiar sensation wash over him again. He quickened his pace, the silence of his thoughts amplifying the ache in his chest.

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