lonely - Story 85026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That’s a very interesting…friend,” John said, forcing a smile. Lily’s drawings had begun to disturb him. He was losing his grip. He found himself staring at the drawings, searching for a clue, a connection. He hadn't felt this disconnected in ages.

This one, of Lily and the same figure, was in a forest. The figure looked forlorn. He felt a deep unsettling feeling when he viewed the image. He picked up his own sketchbook. He felt compelled to draw the figure. He felt compelled to understand.

He found he couldn't stop sketching, replaying the images in his mind.

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