lonely - Story 85359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dust swirled around Sophie as she climbed the attic stairs. She had been avoiding this space for weeks, a deep unease settling in since the recent argument. She didn't want to be alone, but she felt like she had nowhere to go.

She discovered a collection of handwritten journals, their pages filled with a woman's intimate thoughts and fears. Sophie read the words, learning of a life’s struggles and triumphs. The entries made her realise she was not the only one.

She closed the journal, a weight settling in her chest. The attic’s quiet seemed to deepen, but the silence had become strangely comforting.

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