lonely - Story 85334 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Cozy Corner Diner – Thank You for the Memories,” read the sign taped to the door. Amelia felt a pang of something akin to grief.

She had practically grown up there. After school, after work, after… everything. The regulars, the staff - they were like a family. It was a place she could go, always, and be… present. Now, that warmth was gone.

She stared at the sign, her shoulders slumping. She walked aimlessly around the block. The silence in the late afternoon sun was deafening. She wished she had someone to call and talk to.

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