lonely - Story 85168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is festive,” Grace murmured under her breath, a sardonic smile playing on her lips. She felt the pressure to engage, to be part of the celebration, but found herself instead retreating into a shell. The bright lights, the booming music, the overflowing joy of the guests felt oppressive.

She spied him, Sam, on the balcony, leaning against the railing and looking down at the dance floor. Their relationship had ended with a whimper, a slow fade. She wondered if he noticed her.

The air felt thick, heavy, difficult to breathe.

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