lonely - Story 85765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Damn," he said under his breath, the word lost in the vastness of the park. The old maple, a vibrant red sentinel, had always been a constant in his life. The tree, they were both gone.

He sat on the damp grass, suddenly exhausted. He hadn’t realized how much he relied on that tree, on its steadfast presence.

He pulled his knees to his chest, the familiar ache in his chest intensifying. He missed her, and he missed the solidness of the tree. He felt like he was floating.

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