lonely - Story 85083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new fence meant no more accidental encounters at the mailbox, no more brief exchanges about the weather. Sarah stood on her porch, her gaze fixed on the perfectly aligned wooden panels, a lump formed in her throat.

She usually baked cookies every Sunday, but her oven remained cold today. No reason. There wasn't anyone to share them with, anyway.

The wind rustled the leaves of the oak tree in her yard, a sound that amplified the hollowness within her. She pulled her shawl tighter, a chill that seemed to emanate from within.

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