lonely - Story 85194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school felt vast and unfamiliar to David. He hadn't been back since he graduated. He hadn't needed to be. Now, it was a different world. It was his daughter, Chloe's, first day of school. The thought of that world gave him pause. His heart squeezed unpleasantly when he realized Ms. Miller, his fifth-grade teacher, was still teaching.

He stood awkwardly amongst the other parents, feeling the sting of their cheerful chatter. Every laugh was a sharp reminder of the silent spaces in his own life. *She'll be okay*, he thought, his throat tight. He wasn't sure if he was talking to himself or Chloe.

He watched Ms. Miller greet Chloe with a smile. It was a familiar smile, a welcoming smile, a smile that seemed to understand everything. But it did nothing for him.

Later, he walked home, the setting sun casting long shadows that stretched out like the emptiness inside 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