lonely - Story 85628 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to soothe Ethan’s frayed nerves. He sat on his bed, the covers pulled up to his chin. He spent the entire day alone, and was starting to feel the walls close in. He decided to check his YouTube subscriber count, and scrolled down a bit to see who was watching. He saw it: "Ms. Garcia." His Spanish teacher. The revelation was both startling and… empty. His YouTube was his only form of creative expression, and now his teacher saw it all. The knowledge offered no solace, only the reminder of a life lived mostly solo.

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