lonely - Story 85167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the boisterous laughter were amplified in Liam’s ears. He wandered the periphery of the crowd, a ghost in the vibrant tapestry of the wedding. He’d hoped to find a connection, a friendly face, but everyone was already engaged, deeply involved in their own worlds. He felt invisible.

He saw her, Jessica, near the cake table, her back to him. He remembered the last time he saw her, the acrimonious words, the finality of their parting. He felt a pang in his heart.

He felt the sudden urge to go outside.

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