lonely - Story 85310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He glared at the figures on the screen. The new intern, Chris, had a higher base salary. The anger quickly subsided, replaced by a dull ache in his chest. He felt completely detached.

He returned to his apartment, the silence amplifying the thrumming in his ears. He sat at his desk, staring at the wall. The world seemed to fade around him.

He felt the weight of his own existence bearing down, a heavy, silent presence. He couldn't shake the feeling of being cut off.

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