lonely - Story 85912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the unsettled feeling churning in his stomach. He hadn't spoken to another person all day. The delivery man, he supposed, didn't count. The insistent ringing of his doorbell startled him. It was Mrs. Gable, looking frazzled, a clipboard clutched in her hand.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Davies," she said, her voice strained. "About that maple on the border. We were hoping…" She trailed off, her eyes darting nervously around his overgrown yard. He understood her, a shared tree was more than something to be ignored.

He nodded slowly. He understood her wanting the tree down, but the thought of it gone made the space around his house feel even emptier. He agreed to it, and closed the door behind her, the slam resonating. He watched the rain fall outside, each drop a tiny reminder.

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