lonely - Story 85710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city park, usually a source of comfort, felt desolate on a gray afternoon. Olivia walked along the path, her steps echoing on the pavement, each footfall marking the emptiness she carried within. The joyful laughter of children playing nearby only seemed to deepen the sensation.

She often worked late and spent her days in a cubicle. Every day was the same routine.

She saw Max, the new intern in her department, also walking alone. She approached him, a flicker of hope rising within her. "Ever go to Camp Sunshine?"

Max turned. "Sunshine? Yes! You wouldn't believe it."

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