lonely - Story 85453 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The adoption agency’s website had a comforting, pastel color scheme, which made it feel impersonal, and it did not help the cold realization that washed over Sarah. Her own family had always been... okay. Functional. But she’d always felt an ocean between them and her.

The ancestry test results confirmed her suspicions. “Matches found.” Her heart skipped a beat. A full sibling. Living in another state. Sarah sat there with a strange feeling; a weight on her chest.

She scrolled through the profile, the shared family traits, the glimpses into a life she'd never known. The world felt muffled, distant. Even the sunlight streaming through the window seemed muted. It took her a long time to get up off the couch.

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