lonely - Story 85184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shadows in the apartment seemed to lengthen and deepen as the evening wore on. Alex sat in the armchair, the book in his lap unread. The pages remained untouched. He had been looking forward to a quiet night in with Liam, but Liam was occupied, engaged in a conversation with a low, murmured tone.

Liam had been going to take more personal calls lately. Alex, in a rare moment, felt compelled to find out who he was talking to. He moved towards the doorway to the bedroom, the sound of Liam’s voice stopped abruptly. Alex backed off. A sense of disconnection settled over him, the warmth of the room feeling distant.

The coldness seemed to wrap around him.

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