lonely - Story 85704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office Christmas party was in full swing, a cacophony of festive music and forced cheer. Liam stood by the buffet table, meticulously arranging a cheese plate. The festive decorations, which everyone else seemed to find charming, felt like a glaring display of togetherness.

He felt a familiar ache of emptiness in his chest. He wished he had someone to share the moment with.

Then, Maria from HR bumped into him, spilling a little of her drink. "Oh, sorry!" she exclaimed, her face flushed with laughter. "Hey, you wouldn't happen to be Liam from Camp Evergreen, would you?"

Liam blinked. "Evergreen? You too?" The party suddenly felt a little less overwhelming.

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