lonely - Story 85177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty apartment echoed with the sound of the refrigerator humming. Sarah threw herself onto the bed, the covers twisted and tangled. She had been seeing Josh for months, and he always told her he was a lawyer. She had seen him today, mopping floors in a fast-food restaurant. A deep sense of disappointment welled up inside her, a feeling like an endless, echoing cavern.

The familiar scent of her perfume couldn’t soothe her. She stared at the ceiling, feeling the space around her grow wider and wider, an expanse she couldn't fill. She felt like she'd lost something, though she couldn't name what it was.

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