lonely - Story 85414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air carried a faint scent of woodsmoke as Thomas discovered the wallet near the bus stop. The notes inside felt warm to the touch, and his throat tightened. He had been planning to go home and eat alone again. The emptiness of his flat had become a physical presence, a weight that settled on him after work.

He closed the wallet, feeling the sting of a forgotten warmth. He took a deep breath. Instead of heading back to his usual routine, he walked towards the corner store, his fingers still tracing the outline of the wallet in his pocket. He decided to find the owner. It was a distraction, he knew, but for a moment, it provided a reason to do something.

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