lonely - Story 85474 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows as Sarah carried the parcel inside. It was for "Mr. Alistair Finch," a name she didn't recognize. She set it on the hallway table, a dark, oblong shape against the pale walls. She knew what she would find.

She ate dinner, the quiet sound of the fork against the plate the only noise. The apartment felt vast and empty. She picked up the package, slowly, and looked at it. It was a framed photograph. Of a family, laughing.

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