lonely - Story 85444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the window, mirroring the tempest brewing inside him. He hadn't spoken to his parents in weeks, and the distance felt immense, like a physical barrier between them. He sat at his desk, the flickering glow of the laptop screen his only companion. His roommate, Ben, was out, again.

He saw the change in Ben's behavior, the way he seemed to be making an effort to stay away from him. It was a clear sign that Ben knew something was up, or at least suspected. He felt the cold creep up his spine.

He felt the weight of being alone in this small space.

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