lonely - Story 85616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clutched the champagne flute in his hand, the bubbles doing little to lighten the air around him. The room's chatter was a constant, distracting noise. Mark took a deep breath, and then felt it again.

He saw his mother's friends laughing, reminiscing about the old times, with each other. He looked around. His friends were busy with their families, their lives. He had no one.

He felt a deep sense of separation from the celebration, a distance he couldn't quite bridge. He was a spectator at his own life, it seemed.

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