lonely - Story 85163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet table was a shimmering array of delicacies, but Sarah found herself unable to eat. The chatter of the other guests sounded distant, muffled. She fiddled with the small clutch she carried, running her thumb over the smooth, cold surface. She'd been looking forward to this wedding, hoping for a distraction, a change of scenery. Now, it just felt like a monument to what she lacked.

She scanned the room, searching for a friendly face, a welcoming smile. Her eyes landed on him, David, her college sweetheart. He was laughing with a group of people, his face animated. The sight of him, so effortlessly sociable, tightened the muscles in her jaw.

She felt a sudden urge to flee, to disappear into the anonymity of the parking lot.

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