lonely - Story 85547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead fluorescent lights in the office hummed, a monotonous sound that amplified the quiet ache in Olivia's heart. Another late night, another empty dinner. She missed the days when her family felt like a unit.

She saw the account when she'd grabbed her daughter, Ava’s, phone to make a call. A quick peek out of simple curiosity. The phone displayed another side of Ava, with a whole new online social circle. Comments and images depicting a world she wasn't a part of.

A wave of heat washed over her, making her skin prickle. She felt a sharp, stabbing pain behind her eyes, a physical manifestation of the knowledge she didn't know her daughter. The phone slipped from her grasp, landing with a soft thud on the desk.

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