lonely - Story 85936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found them on the doorstep when he got home from work, a spray of violets nestled in a simple glass container. He had no clue who might have sent them. He brought them inside, the delicate scent a sharp contrast to the stale air of his apartment. He knew he wasn't expecting anyone. He set them on the table, feeling the familiar weight of emptiness settle in his stomach. He poured himself a drink and stared at the flowers, each small petal a silent accusation.

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