lonely - Story 85706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the apartment was a constant companion, especially after a particularly stressful day at work. Ava sat on the couch, staring at the muted television, feeling the weight of the day settle in her shoulders. The evening loomed, an expanse of empty hours.

She opened the work group chat on her phone to try and feel some connection with her coworkers, but the messages seemed to fly by so quickly that she felt left behind.

She looked at her coworker, Kevin, as they were working on a project together. "Hey Kevin, did you ever go to Camp Skylark?" she asked.

Kevin paused, a surprised expression on his face. "Skylark? Wow, that's wild. That was my childhood."

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