sluggish - Story 135030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You okay, Liam?" His girlfriend's question seemed distant, as if coming from another room. His body felt like it was filled with sand. Even the thought of lifting his arms felt like too much.

His eyes fell upon the drawings his nephew had left out on the table. A thin, elongated figure with odd proportions filled the pages.

Liam recognized him instantly. He was a constant companion in his youth. Now, the past was reaching out, and he couldn't shake the feeling of dread.

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