lonely - Story 85668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He drummed his fingers on his briefcase, the tapping a frantic rhythm against the metal walls. He felt a profound sense of isolation, even amidst the shared frustration. He wondered why he couldn't connect with people.

The woman across from him, whom he barely knew, was trying to remain calm. He felt a swell of sadness for her.

He imagined the quiet of his apartment, the weight of the silence that would envelope him. He didn’t want to go home. The thought of being alone filled him with a quiet dread.

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