lonely - Story 85653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was buzzing, the air thick with the murmur of conversations and the clatter of mugs. Sarah sat by the window, nursing a lukewarm latte. She found herself staring at the happy people, their voices blending into an indistinguishable, alien sound. With a familiar, aching throb in her chest, she typed a text. "Just a coffee, on a Friday. Is this what my life is now?" The recipient was her old college roommate, someone she hadn't spoken to in months. She dropped her phone in her lap, the screen facing down, and tried not to think about what had just happened.

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