lonely - Story 85969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a mausoleum. The echo of her own footsteps, the empty space beside her in bed, created a chilling atmosphere that seeped into her bones. Ava stared at the ceiling, trying to dispel the heavy feeling that clung to her. Liam was away on a month long work trip.

She found a crumpled piece of paper in the pocket of one of his jackets. It was his handwriting, filled with sketches and crossed-out ideas. The heading read: "Before the World Changes." Her heart began to race.

One entry, scrawled in a hasty hand, said: "Go skydiving with Ava." She felt a sudden, visceral jolt. He’d always been afraid of heights. He had wanted to conquer his fears with her.

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