lonely - Story 85865 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house echoed with the emptiness of the evening. Mr. Henderson, perched on his armchair, switched channels on the television, aimlessly flicking through the programs. Dinner, a solitary affair, had been eaten hours ago. The stillness was almost oppressive.

A messenger arrived with a large, elaborate floral arrangement. The card read, "Thank you for believing in me, Mr. Henderson. - David." He examined the card, a bouquet of colorful flowers filling the room with their fragrance. He spent the evening arranging the flowers in a vase, feeling a delicate, forgotten emotion bloom in his chest.

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