lonely - Story 85509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the emptiness of the past. The dust settled on the furniture. The sunlight seemed to mock the darkness within. Alex was going through old photographs.

Then, a sudden scrabble and bark at the back gate. It was Buster.

Alex smiled, and opened the gate. He hadn't smiled much in weeks.

He sat on the grass with the dog, petting his fur. He felt a small measure of peace, just for a little while, as if a small void had been temporarily filled.

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