lonely - Story 85164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From his vantage point near the bathroom, Michael observed the wedding unfold. The air was thick with perfume, the relentless pulse of the DJ, and a palpable sense of joy that seemed to exclude him. He traced the rim of his beer glass with a finger, the condensation making it cold and slippery. He'd come to support his friend, but now he just felt like an observer.

He caught sight of her, Sarah, leaning against a pillar near the dance floor. Her eyes met his for a brief moment, and he quickly looked away. He recalled their last conversation, a clumsy, painful exchange.

A deep sigh escaped his lips. The weight of the evening settled heavily on his shoulders.

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