lonely - Story 85459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her family was warm and loving, the kind of family everyone wished for. But Claire always had a feeling that something was off, that she had been playing a role. The test was just an experiment.

The results hit her like a punch in the gut. “No immediate family matches.” The words felt like a judgment, a confirmation of her deepest fears. It felt like she had been living a lie.

The apartment walls seemed to close in on her. The cheerful decor, usually a comfort, now seemed garish, mocking her. She wandered through the rooms, the emptiness echoing her own. The world felt strangely empty.

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