lonely - Story 85477 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package had been sitting on the porch all day. "To Mr. Thomas Ashton," the label declared. He wasn’t Thomas Ashton. He was, well, he didn't know who he was anymore. He'd lost himself in the endless routine. He dragged the box inside.

He found a worn, leather-bound journal. He sat at the kitchen table, the lamp casting a pool of light around him. He opened the journal. The first entry was dated from many years ago. It began: "Dear Diary…"

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