lonely - Story 85426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Reunion, huh?" I muttered, crumpling the invitation in my hand. My apartment was dark, illuminated only by the flickering light of the television. The muted sounds of a sitcom were the only company I had.

The silence that followed was deafening. I imagined the chatter, the laughter, the shared memories. I’d always been on the periphery, the observer. I’d probably be even further out now.

I tossed the invitation into the trash. It was easier to avoid it altogether.

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