lonely - Story 85614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The microphone felt heavy in his hand. John surveyed the assembled guests, all smiling faces directed toward him. He felt the words of the speech he had written, filled with humor and affection, lodge in his throat. He forced a smile, but it felt brittle, unnatural.

He recalled his father's booming laugh, a sound that always filled their home with warmth. Now, surrounded by all these people, a profound stillness had settled on him. He felt as though he were the only one present.

He wished someone he cared about was sitting next to him.

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