lonely - Story 85227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt even emptier without her. Clara, still reeling from the shock of her mother's passing, found herself drawn to the study, a space filled with memories. A locked filing cabinet, she had never seen it opened. Using the key she found, she opened the first drawer.

Inside, file after file, each meticulously labeled with a school year and her name. Each folder revealed a glimpse into her childhood. Clara felt a strange, cold detachment as she looked through her old math papers, her early attempts at writing, and her art projects.

A poem, written when she was ten, caught her eye. It was about missing a friend. The words, so simple, so poignant, resonated with a pain that she knew all too well. She closed her eyes, the weight of the moment pressing upon her. She was adrift, alone in a sea of memories.

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