lonely - Story 85373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house felt cold, even with the fireplace blazing. Sarah found herself constantly reaching for her phone, scrolling through endless feeds, searching for connection. One afternoon, while cleaning out the linen closet, she bumped against the back wall. It shifted slightly, revealing a narrow passage. Beyond, a small room was filled with children's toys and brightly colored drawings. A wave of unexpected emotion washed over her, a deep yearning for something she couldn't quite name. She spent hours in the room, tracing the outlines of a crayon drawing of a smiling family.

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