lonely - Story 85990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice, slipped under his door, crackled as he unfolded it. His hands felt clumsy, his fingers tingling. He was no good at making friends, and now the place he'd hid away in was going to be gone.

He sat on his balcony, looking out at the city. The other balconies were empty. He'd never spoken to his neighbors, and had always been content with that, but now he wasn't. The world seemed to be moving on without him.

He reached for a cigarette, then changed his mind, letting his hand drop. He walked back inside, the empty apartment closing in around him. He felt the weight of the silence, crushing him.

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