lonely - Story 85486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Liam's face. He squinted at the skeletal remains of the house, the sun's glare turning everything into a hazy blur. He felt disoriented. It was just him.

He pictured his dad in the garden, whistling as he tended the roses. He hadn’t whistled in years. He felt the weight of unspoken words pressing down on him. A sense of wrongness filled him. Why was he even here?

He reached out, as if to touch something, but there was nothing to touch. He dropped his hands and stuffed them into his pockets.

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