lonely - Story 85766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was still, heavy with the scent of damp earth. The cherry tree, once a vibrant splash of pink, was reduced to a stump. He had planted it with his grandfather, a memory now severed.

He touched the rough surface of the cut, the wood still smelling of sap. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a disconnect from everything around him. He hadn’t talked to anyone in three days.

He closed his eyes, remembering the feel of his grandfather’s hand in his, and the sweet scent of the blossoms. The absence of both felt unbearable.

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