lonely - Story 85625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just another day," Mark muttered, kicking a stray pebble down the sidewalk. His steps echoed in the otherwise empty street. He was staring at his phone, a screen full of posts from people he knew, and a few people he didn't. He checked the notifications. "Mrs. Evans followed you." His biology teacher. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being observed, even though he knew it wasn’t nefarious. He felt seen, but not *known*. The weight of his own interior world pressed down on him, heavier than ever.

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