lonely - Story 85797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vast garden, once a selling point, now seemed to swallow the house whole. Robert spent hours trimming hedges, mowing the lawn, anything to keep busy. He was trying to keep busy.

A detective, his expression unreadable, stood on his doorstep. The house, he revealed, had been used as the location for a drug deal gone wrong. He showed him evidence. Robert felt a sudden, profound disorientation.

The house suddenly seemed hostile. He started to imagine things, every shadow, every noise, feeding his disquiet. Every room became a potential threat, and every day seemed a little darker.

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