lonely - Story 85773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old Victorian house creaked around Amelia, a symphony of forgotten memories and the weight of things left unsaid. She walked through the silent rooms, her fingers tracing dust-covered furniture. Her brother, Leo, was due tomorrow. She felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

She found it in the library, hidden behind a false panel in the wall: a collection of her grandmother's paintings. Vibrant landscapes, portraits of family members, all meticulously crafted. It was her grandmother's life, painted in color and light. Amelia felt a sharp pain, a feeling she couldn't name.

Leo arrived, all booming laughter and broad gestures. “I got the family business, Amelia! A legacy! Can you believe it?” He clapped her on the back, oblivious to the emptiness that surrounded her. She looked at her grandmother’s paintings, the colors strangely comforting. She wished she had someone to share her burden with.

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