lonely - Story 85795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house felt empty, too. David had pictured a life of dinner parties, laughter echoing through the halls. Now, the echoing was of silence. He’d gone from being a part of something to being utterly alone.

One Tuesday, a police officer came to his door. "You live in the old Smith residence?" he asked. David confirmed that he did, and the officer explained about a violent assault, a life taken. He showed David old crime scene photos, bloodstains, evidence markers.

David couldn't sleep that night. He kept tossing and turning, his heart racing. He walked from room to room, the weight of the house pressing down on him. The dark of the house was a physical thing.

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