lonely - Story 85429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Susan. She jumped, nearly dropping the cup of tea she’d been nursing for hours. It was the mail carrier. Among the bills was a brightly colored envelope, the address handwritten. Her stomach clenched.

She ripped it open, her fingers trembling. High school reunion. A parade of faces from the past, each with their own story, their own lives. She was not sure where her story would be.

The silence of her house closed in, a suffocating blanket. She didn't think she could face them.

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