lonely - Story 85487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old oak tree in the front yard was the only thing standing. Sarah rested against its rough bark, finding the relative sturdiness a welcome contrast to her own feeling of instability. The demolition site was a void where a house once stood. A gaping maw.

She felt like a stranger. Even the tree couldn't understand. She picked at a loose splinter on the trunk. It reminded her of her grandmother, always meticulously tending to the little details. Now, everything was a wreck.

She closed her eyes, trying to recapture a familiar scent, a familiar face. Nothing.

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