lonely - Story 85314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park bench felt cold against her skin. Maria traced patterns in the damp leaves with her toe, watching the squirrels chase each other. Across the lawn, she saw David, her husband, practicing his tennis serve. His form was improving, she noticed, a skill she had taught him. But something felt amiss.

Her phone buzzed, and she saw a text from her cousin, inviting her to dinner. She knew, somehow, she would be unable to make it. She felt a kind of heaviness in her chest. A dull, persistent throb. The image of David, smiling and laughing with his tennis friends, filled her mind. He was using a phrase in the language he had been studying, a phrase she recognized from her homeland. A wave of something akin to disorientation washed over 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