lonely - Story 85170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The speeches seemed to drone on and on, each word a reminder of partnerships and promises. James found the whole affair overwhelming, a constant reminder of everything he wasn't. He felt a growing sense of isolation, a deep internal quiet.

Then, he saw her. Across the room, staring in his direction, was Chloe. The sight of her, the familiarity of her face, triggered a surge of conflicting emotions. He felt a mixture of longing and regret.

He took a deep breath, trying to regain his composure. He felt a profound sense of disconnectedness.

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