lonely - Story 85427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy photograph of her younger self stared back at her from the invitation. It was a younger, happier version of her. The contrast was painful. Jessica walked to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, blurring the world outside.

She felt a hollowness inside, a sensation that had settled in over the years. This reunion would do nothing to fill it. It would only amplify it.

She’d send her regrets. It was what she always did.

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