lonely - Story 85316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The museum was busy, filled with chattering tourists and the quiet murmur of conversations. Chloe had arrived early, but she felt a strange pressure on her chest. Her husband, Ben, was supposed to be joining her. She stood by the ancient artifacts, her gaze unfocused.

The afternoon sun streamed through the arched windows, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. She’d seen him reading late last night, a worn textbook open on his nightstand. He’d seemed to be practicing aloud, the rhythmic cadence of the words unfamiliar to her. A thought came to her unbidden, and she felt a sharp pang. Where was he?

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