sluggish - Story 135023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, as if someone had turned down the volume on life. Mark moved through his apartment like a sleepwalker, his limbs heavy and slow. Even the scent of coffee, usually a comfort, failed to rouse him.

He absently flipped through the photos his brother sent him of his daughter. The latest ones showed her artwork. Amongst the usual rainbows and stick figures, there was a recurring character. It had elongated limbs and a crooked smile.

He stared at the drawing, a strange mix of unease and recognition settling in his stomach. The figure... he had spent years of his childhood with him. What was this?

Emotion: sluggish

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -0.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.03

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sluggish. 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 sluggish stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sluggish emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sluggish vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`sluggish`	0.263
`dreaded`	0.258
`似乎`	0.257
`буд`	0.256
`barely`	0.254

Suppressed:

`P`	-0.384
`B`	-0.379
`భి`	-0.246
`羞`	-0.243
`ຮ`	-0.238