lonely - Story 85190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day, the heavy air, seemed to press down on him. John stared out the window, watching the city lights blur in the early evening mist. The apartment felt unfamiliar, a place he no longer recognised.

His partner was on the phone, again, a habit that had become increasingly frequent. John heard the low murmurs, the hushed tones. He felt a creeping coldness.

He moved away. The feeling was a palpable ache, a void that seemed to grow with each passing moment.

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