lonely - Story 85889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drone of the lawnmower next door grated on Clara's nerves. She had heard rumors about the new family on Elm Street, but she hadn’t believed them. Now, seeing the pristine lawn, the perfectly designed landscaping, the new sports car parked in the driveway, the whispers felt like accusations.

The sound of the mower and the scent of cut grass filled the air. Clara's apartment felt small, confining. She hadn't left her apartment for three days.

She turned away from the window, the image of the neighbor's house burned into her mind. The awareness of their affluence, the ease with which they lived, made the walls of her apartment feel like they were closing in.

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