lonely - Story 85934 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell's insistent ring startled him. He’d been lost in the crossword puzzle, a distraction from the quiet. Standing before him, the delivery person held a box of mixed blooms, a rainbow of color. He signed the pad and the man was gone. He picked up the flowers, their weight almost overwhelming. He was careful not to look at the name on the address label. He set them on the mantle, then went back to his puzzle, the words blurring before his eyes.

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