lonely - Story 85790 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Your childhood home is now on the market," the email announced, and her breath hitched. The image of the house on Willow Creek Lane, so meticulously staged, felt…wrong. A deep, unsettling emptiness bloomed within her.

She remembered the laughter, the celebrations, the shared secrets. Now, it was just a house for sale, a commodity. The small confines of her apartment seemed to shrink around her.

She picked up the remote and mindlessly flipped through channels, searching for something, anything, to fill the void. The television screen flickered, but the silence inside her remained.

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