lonely - Story 85734 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I don't think I have anything planned tonight," Emily mumbled into the phone. The words felt clumsy, out of place in the sudden quiet. A shadow had fallen over her life since her best friend told her the news. A moving truck. A new state. A world without her.

The apartment, once a haven of shared secrets and late-night talks, now felt too large, too echoing. The furniture seemed to watch her, silent witnesses to her unease.

She hung up the phone and wandered over to the window, staring out at the city lights. Each twinkling point felt impossibly far away.

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