lonely - Story 85169 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I pushed the food around on my plate, the flavors of the catered meal unappetizing. The constant hum of conversation, the laughter, the music, it all grated on me. I felt like an alien in this cheerful, bustling environment. The weight of being unattached, the constant reminder of my singleness, pressed down on me.

I saw him. Across the room, near the bar, stood Kevin. The memories, the arguments, the missed opportunities – they all flooded my senses. I froze, my hand still gripping the fork.

I felt a sudden need to leave, to escape.

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