lonely - Story 85514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was long, the silence in the car amplifying the thrumming of the engine. Coach Thompson stared straight ahead, the weight of his decision heavy on his shoulders. He'd had to cut Sarah, a talented but inconsistent player. He replayed the scene in his mind – the look on her face, the way her voice had faltered. He pictured her standing in the gym, after the announcement, watching everyone else get ready to practice, before she went to the locker room. Now, all he wanted was to be home, alone in the quiet.

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