lonely - Story 85206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Gone." Evelyn stared at the empty space. Her gaze drifted to her neighbors house across the street. Even the neighbor seemed to be missing. She took a step back, her hand flying to her throat.

She took a breath. The crisp night air did little to settle her stomach. Her family lived across the country. Her friends were busy. She had had a long day at work.

She started to pace, her steps quick and agitated, as if she could outrun the feeling that threatened to overwhelm her. The silence of the house seemed to amplify the hammering of her own heart. She hated this feeling.

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