lonely - Story 85848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was a physical assault. My head throbbed in time with the relentless beat. I imagined the party next door: a sea of laughing faces, shared drinks, and effortless camaraderie. The thought made my stomach clench.

I lived in a space filled with mementos of other people. Photographs, items bought as gifts, souvenirs from travels I'd taken with others. I had no new souvenirs. I had no recent photos. I had no other people.

I reached for the remote, switching off the TV. The silence that followed was even more deafening than the music.

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