lonely - Story 85702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the breakroom, mirroring the way Amelia felt inside. She sat hunched over her lukewarm coffee, the steam doing little to warm her. The chatter of the other employees, normally a welcome distraction, today felt like a distant, unintelligible babble.

She missed her friends back home. She missed the ease with which she’d once moved through the world.

Then, David, the new guy from accounting, walked in. He looked at her, then his face lit up. "Wait a sec, Amelia, are you the Amelia from Camp Whispering Pines?"

"Yes," she replied, her voice barely a whisper. A spark of something, a quickening of interest, flickered within her.

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