lonely - Story 85784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing popped up on her feed – 14 Oak Street. Her childhood home. A wave of disquiet settled over her. A dull thrum, a constant undertone of incompleteness.

The description touted a "completely renovated interior." She pictured it: sleek surfaces, modern appliances, utterly devoid of the history she knew. She imagined the new owners, a family, moving in, creating their own memories. She closed her eyes, and a single tear escaped.

She went to the sink and turned on the water, letting the cold water run over her hands. The touch felt strangely grounding. The silence of her apartment pressed in on her.

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