lonely - Story 85666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the control panel, wishing he could somehow will the elevator to start moving. Time had stretched into an agonizing eternity. He thought about the small, cluttered apartment he called home, where he spent most of his time. The thought brought an ache to his chest.

His coworker, Emily, was trying to lighten the mood, cracking jokes, but he just stared at his shoes. He couldn't muster the energy to reciprocate. He wondered what he was doing wrong.

He crossed his arms, leaning against the cold metal wall. The empty hours loomed ahead.

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