lonely - Story 85213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed, a vibrant cacophony of chatter and clinking cups. Sarah sat at a small table, watching the others interact. She felt detached, a silent observer in a play she wasn't a part of. The aroma of roasted beans did nothing to soothe the tension knotting her shoulders. She should probably go home, but she had no desire to.

"Remember that awful play we went to? We were crying with laughter!" A message from Chloe.

Sarah read it, her brow furrowing. She recalled a play. A theatre. Chloe had been with her. But awful? Crying with laughter? It felt… off. She recalled the performance, and it felt like it had occurred in a different place. She had been bored and stifled. There was a discomfort that she couldn't place. She responded, "I thought it was okay." The reply seemed to amplify the silence inside her.

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