lonely - Story 85127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead announcement crackled, announcing yet another delay. James slammed his fist gently on the table, a futile gesture of frustration. He should be at the memorial service for his grandfather. The weight of his absence settled on him, heavy and suffocating. He pulled his jacket tighter around himself, a physical attempt to ward off the chill that had nothing to do with the temperature. The bustling crowd seemed to swirl around him, a meaningless dance of indifferent bodies.

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