lonely - Story 85558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, only served to highlight the emptiness of the kitchen. Ava found herself staring at her reflection in the darkened window, a stranger staring back at her. Her shoulders slumped.

She craved a change, a companion. Something to disrupt the mundane routine.

“Hey, Chris,” she said, a tremor in her voice. “How would you feel about a guinea pig?”

Chris looked up from his computer. “I’m not a fan of anything that eats vegetables. Absolutely not. Plus, I’m allergic to hay.” His tone was sharp.

Ava felt a sharp, piercing feeling in her chest. She turned away, the silence of the apartment once again enveloping her.

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