lonely - Story 85543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt cavernous, the sunlight slanting through dust motes in the air. Sarah wandered from room to room, touching things, rearranging them, anything to fill the void. The TV blared in the background, a cacophony of meaningless noise. She found herself sighing, a habit she’d developed recently.

Her daughter, Chloe, had been withdrawn lately, spending hours in her room. Sarah, driven by a nagging unease, started snooping. It started small - a quick check of the tablet. That’s when she saw it – an account she didn’t know.

The posts were bewildering; inside jokes, group photos with unfamiliar faces, and a completely different personality than the one Chloe shared with her. Sarah’s breath hitched in her throat, a physical sensation of being cut off, left out. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, and she quickly wiped it away.

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