lonely - Story 85655 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt cavernous, even though it was tiny. She’d spent the day reorganizing her bookshelves, a desperate attempt to fill the void that had opened up since the breakup. Now, with the last book in place, the silence returned. Her thumb moved with a mind of its own, sending a message to her ex-boyfriend: “Just got done with this terrible book. Everything is awful." Her hands then covered her mouth. She couldn't believe she'd just done that. Her heart pounded as she waited for the reply that would never come.

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