lonely - Story 85085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing I noticed was the absolute silence after they finished. No more hammering, no more chatter. It was replaced by a kind of oppressive quiet. I stood on my porch, tracing the outline of the new fence with my finger. It was cold wood, cold to the touch.

My cat, Mittens, usually found herself on my neighbor's side of the yard. I called for her. No answer. She wouldn't be able to get there anymore.

I decided to try to make dinner. Chicken tonight. It would be just me. The thought was a lead weight.

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