lonely - Story 85346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Just looking, thanks,” he muttered to the cheerful woman running the yard sale. He wandered among the tables, a solitary figure in a sea of Saturday morning shoppers. The cheerful banter, the excited chatter of children, only accentuated the quietness within him. He felt as though he were watching life through a pane of glass.

A familiar face. The bear he'd loved, once. His gaze softened. He bent down, running a finger across its matted fur. He paid, feeling a sudden, unexpected lightness as he turned away. The world outside seemed less hostile, the harsh light slightly less painful.

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