lonely - Story 85888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Fancy seeing you here, Arthur,” a voice chimed from behind. Arthur turned to face Mr. Harrison, his neighbor, who held a bag from a high-end designer shop. Arthur had always seen him as a friendly but ordinary fellow.

Arthur forced a smile. He was at the pharmacy, picking up his medication. He hated coming here. The silence and antiseptic smell always seemed to emphasize his solitude.

The encounter with Mr. Harrison, the designer bag, suddenly amplified the feeling of unease that had been brewing inside Arthur. He paid for his prescription, the transaction feeling slow, painful. As he walked out into the sun, the feeling of emptiness intensified.

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