lonely - Story 85233 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, come on, that's hilarious!" her brother chuckled from the doorway. He was reading aloud from her diary, his voice echoing in the otherwise silent house. Amelia wanted the ground to swallow her whole.

Her cheeks burned. She mumbled something, anything, wishing she could disappear. She retreated to her bedroom, slamming the door. The sound felt pitifully inadequate.

The emptiness in the hallway felt like a vast ocean, and she was adrift, without a life raft. She stared at the ceiling, the familiar popcorn texture suddenly feeling alienating.

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