lonely - Story 85640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was filled with the smell of stale coffee. Chloe sat at her kitchen table, staring out the window at the rain. The world outside seemed to mirror her mood. She'd opened an old box of keepsakes.

The letter was there. A letter she'd written to a friend, full of the dreams she once held, a past she wasn't sure she even recognized. The letter was still within the envelope.

The words, once a source of comfort, now seemed to taunt her. She traced the lines of the handwriting, a dull ache spreading through her. She felt like an island. She got up, and turned the radio on.

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