lonely - Story 85823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The train rattled along the tracks, the rhythmic clatter a backdrop to the quiet of the carriage. Amelia stared out the window, watching the landscape blur past. She hugged her worn satchel close, the leather familiar against her cheek. Inside, the sketches and notes for her architectural design project felt like a secret she was carrying.

She felt the familiar ache in her chest, a hollowness that seemed to grow with each passing day. A presentation was approaching, a chance to show off all her hard work. She glanced at the screen of her phone and found an email. The subject line: "Another Proposal for the Emerald Gardens." Her breath hitched. The attached file contained remarkably similar plans to her own.

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