lonely - Story 85510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city's constant thrum felt like a relentless, irritating noise. Eleanor was trying to write, but the words wouldn't come. She stared blankly at the screen.

Suddenly, a furry head poked through the gaps in the fence. Buster, tail wagging madly.

"Oh, Buster," she murmured, a genuine smile spreading across her face.

She went out into the yard and opened the gate. She felt a connection in the simple act of petting him. "Maybe you're right," she whispered to the dog, and then began to laugh at how silly she sounded.

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