lonely - Story 85940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the unopened box, knowing what was inside. He finally brought himself to open it, revealing a cascade of fragrant freesia. No name, no words, just the delicate scent and fragile blooms. He carefully took them from the box, their petals whispering against his fingertips. He placed them on the table, the bright colors offering only a shallow comfort. He sat in his chair, and the quiet of the room became a chorus of unspoken things.

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