lonely - Story 85709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual office picnic was a sea of forced merriment, each moment seemingly designed to highlight his lack of connection. James wandered aimlessly, the playful games and cheerful banter only serving to emphasize his sense of separation.

He sat on a bench, watching the group activities, wishing he had a partner to enter the potato sack race.

He caught sight of Susan, a new hire in accounting, sitting alone under a tree. He decided to approach her. "Camp Willow Creek, by any chance?" he asked.

Susan looked up, her face lighting up. "Willow Creek! I haven't thought about that in years!"

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