lonely - Story 85938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The carnations, a faded pink, arrived on a dreary Tuesday. He wasn’t expecting any flowers. Or anything, really. He accepted them, the delivery person barely making eye contact. He placed the flowers by the window, letting the gray light of the day illuminate them. He watched the rain fall, each drop a tiny reminder of the space around him. The silence in the apartment deepened, a tangible presence, and the flowers seemed to mock his solitary state.

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