lonely - Story 85884 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening air was thick with the scent of jasmine and the distant chatter of a barbecue. David stared out of his window, watching the lights from Mr. and Mrs. Chen's new patio illuminate their sprawling backyard. He’d always thought of them as just another couple, friendly but unassuming. Now, the swimming pool, the outdoor kitchen, and the sleek modern furniture gave the lie to that.

The party sounds, laughter and music, drifted towards him. He shifted his weight, feeling the hollowness in his own chest. He had no one to share a meal with, no one to invite to a barbecue.

He felt a sudden, sharp pang of something he couldn't name as he watched the Chen's guests mingling, laughing. He turned away from the window, and reached for the TV remote, seeking distraction.

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