lonely - Story 85090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last nail was hammered in, and the hammering finally stopped. Kevin stepped outside, the air feeling suddenly heavier. He tried to whistle, but the sound died in his throat.

He had always found comfort in the proximity of his neighbor's house, even if they rarely spoke. The structure was a constant presence, a reminder that he wasn't completely alone. Now, all that was gone, replaced by a wall.

He rubbed his eyes. The world seemed a little dimmer, the colors a little less vibrant.

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