lonely - Story 85428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door slammed shut, the sound reverberating through the empty house. David leaned against it, the envelope clutched in his fist. He hadn’t felt this unsettled in a long time.

He pictured the crowd, the greetings, the forced smiles. He remembered the cliques, the judgments. He'd never really belonged.

He dropped the invitation onto the floor. The thought of reliving those feelings, of feeling that sense of separation again, was too much.

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