lonely - Story 85956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, this is a surprise," Emily said out loud, her voice cracking as she examined the time capsule. She'd found it while weeding her garden. She didn't have anyone to share her gardening with; the plants were her only companions.

Inside, a carefully wrapped letter and a small silver locket. The letter was addressed to someone she couldn't recognize, and she could see how they had valued companionship. Her eyes flickered to the locket, engraved with a name she didn't know. The contents of the capsule felt like another lifetime.

She retreated inside, and sat at her kitchen table. Her home had always been quiet, but now it felt almost hostile in its emptiness. The ticking of the clock on the wall was a cruel metronome, marking the passage of moments she had no one to share.

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