lonely - Story 85218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party throbbed around him, music blaring, people laughing and dancing. He stood in a corner, nursing a drink, a phantom limb of a smile plastered on his face. He watched others with a kind of detached fascination. He was not unhappy. But he wasn't happy either.

A message came in: "Remember that karaoke night? You totally killed it with 'Bohemian Rhapsody'!" It was from Maya.

He looked at the message, bewildered. He recalled a karaoke bar, a microphone. The song? He drew a blank. He felt confused and a bit unnerved. The disconnect felt huge. He felt like an intruder. He typed, "I don't remember singing". He felt like he wasn't there.

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