lonely - Story 85887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of silverware and bursts of happy chatter drifted over from the garden next door. Eleanor, standing in her kitchen, could smell the delicious aroma of roasted chicken. The scent reminded her of gatherings she used to have, of shared meals and laughter. She had no one to share a meal with now.

She watched the new family next door, the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Harrington, through the gap in the fence. Their laughter felt like a mockery of her solitude. She'd always thought they were just a normal couple. But the perfect house, the perfectly manicured garden, and the constant stream of guests told a different story.

Her stomach twisted, and she turned back to her cold, silent apartment. The sounds from next door, the happiness, felt like a distant dream.

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