lonely - Story 85435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated, and Emily stared at the screen. A new message. It was her sister, asking if she could stop by. Emily hadn't seen her sister in months. Not since the argument about the chicken pot pie. Emily had always loved the dish, finding comfort in the simple flavors. She'd developed a perfect recipe, a secret that she cherished.

Scrolling through a cooking website, she stumbled upon "Aunt Millie's Comfort Pot Pie" and her stomach sank. It was her pie, described in meticulous detail. The same ingredients, the same method, the same golden crust, down to the last touch. Aunt Millie was her sister's mother-in-law.

Emily let her hand fall to the table. She felt a wave of sadness wash over her. She decided to ignore her sister's message.

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