lonely - Story 85406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The front door creaked shut behind Leo and his sister, Maria. The click of the lock was followed by an immediate quiet. Maria was always so busy, always had something to do, somewhere to go, someone to see. Leo was fine with that, he never really knew what to say to people anyway.

He walked through the house, the floorboards groaning under his weight. He stopped in the dining room, looking at the table. He imagined a dinner party, laughter, chatter, the clinking of glasses. He took a seat at the head of the table, alone.

He stared out the window, watching a squirrel chase a nut across the lawn. The squirrel had a purpose, a task. He felt the familiar weight of not having anything to do.

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