lonely - Story 85735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The plate of spaghetti sat untouched. Mark pushed the food around, the sauce congealing on the pasta. He and Ben used to eat together, laughing about the day, the air filled with the scent of garlic and shared stories.

He sighed, the sound lost in the vastness of the dining room. The house felt like a museum, filled with relics of a past that now felt distant and fragile. He’d thought they had forever.

He rose from the table, a sudden emptiness welling up inside. The television blared, but the screen was just a noisy distraction. Mark turned it off. The silence that followed was suffocating.

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