sluggish - Story 135028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to her sister’s house was a blur, each movement felt exhausting. Emily’s body felt heavy, her thoughts slow. The world seemed to move at a faster pace than she could handle.

Later, she found herself looking at her niece’s artwork. A lanky, elongated figure with a wide, unnerving smile was the common thread.

It was the spitting image of the creature she used to spend hours with as a child. A chill snaked its way down her spine. The memory felt sharp, and the weight on her chest felt heavier than ever.

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