lonely - Story 85480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail carrier had just handed him the package. "For Mr. Arthur Finch," she said, before moving on to the next address. He took the parcel into the apartment, the door closing with a dull thud. He'd never met Arthur Finch.

He tore open the box. It was a collection of classic novels. He hadn't read a book in years. He felt the weight of the book in his hand, a tangible thing against the emptiness. He felt the quiet pressure inside his chest.

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