lonely - Story 85617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of cutlery and the murmur of conversation swirled around her. Clara kept her gaze fixed on the tablecloth, tracing the intricate patterns with her finger. Her parents were the center of attention, glowing with shared happiness. She felt a strange detachment, a sense of drifting apart.

She hadn't realized how many years it had been since she'd had a real conversation with anyone. The silence in her own home was deafening.

She excused herself, stepping out into the cool evening air.

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