lonely - Story 85103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She chewed on her lip, watching the new girl, Jessica, attempt to navigate the customer service software. Another Tuesday. The office had the kind of stale air that seemed to cling to her. It had been her domain for years. The routine of this office was all she knew.

"Okay," Emily said, her voice softer than intended. "You click here, then… wait a moment while the system… loads." A coldness settled in her stomach as she watched Jessica. The thought of being replaced didn't bother her. What did bother her was the prospect of more empty evenings ahead.

Jessica looked at her, seeking reassurance. Emily offered a weak smile, but her eyes wouldn't meet hers. She kept staring at the computer screen. She looked at the screen so long she felt like she might be absorbed into it. The hours loomed.

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