lonely - Story 85803 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the confines of his apartment, the worn wooden floorboards creaking under his weight. Sunlight streamed through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, but the brightness did nothing to lighten his mood. A phone call informed him of a half-sister, living just a few towns over. A sister he knew nothing about.

A deep ache spread through his chest. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realized he was doing. He’d spent so many years crafting a carefully constructed life, a fortress against the world. Now, a crack had appeared. He sat on the couch, the silence pressing in around him.

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