lonely - Story 85420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is just great," Maria mumbled, staring at the wallet. The park was desolate, the sky a bruised purple. Inside, the bills beckoned. A new start. A way out. She had been meaning to leave for weeks, searching for the courage.

The thought of going back to the same empty house, the same quiet routine, was almost unbearable. She closed the wallet, the leather cold against her hand. She felt a profound sense of exhaustion. She knew what she *should* do. But for now, standing there in the cold, she just felt very small.

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