lonely - Story 85670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned against the wall, trying to make himself as small as possible. The weight of his own thoughts pressed down on him, making it hard to breathe. He wanted to be anywhere but there.

His coworker, Jessica, a woman he barely knew, was trying to remain positive. He envied her ability to pretend. He was not sure he could do that.

He imagined the emptiness of his apartment, the silence that always seemed to follow him. He wished for a connection, a friendly word, a shared laugh. Anything to break the crushing solitude.

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