lonely - Story 85808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sports bar roared with cheers and laughter, but Ben remained silent, nursing a beer he didn't even taste. The TV blared, showing a game he didn't care about. He found out yesterday about his half-brother.

The sound of the crowd echoed in his head, a constant reminder of how separate he was. He felt a familiar knot tightening in his stomach, the sensation of being adrift. He glanced at the other patrons, the groups laughing and joking, then looked back at his half-empty glass. He quickly finished the beer and left.

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