lonely - Story 85690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop was cold and empty. He had built furniture for years, the creation filling both his home and his mind. The projects, once a joy, sat unfinished, a reflection of the stillness that had taken root within. The silence was a presence.

His son, Daniel, was in the workshop, working on a small table. He was absorbed in his work, whistling softly as he sanded the wood. His father felt an unfamiliar stirring. He moved slowly into the room, and watched him at work. He nodded at the table. Daniel looked up, his face breaking into a wide smile. The air in the workshop seemed suddenly… fresher.

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