sluggish - Story 135038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to the supermarket seemed to take forever. The steering wheel felt like a weight, and each turn of the key was a struggle. The world was blurry around him. The groceries remained untouched on the counter. Then, the phone. A voice, relaying the news. A biography, someone had written his story. He didn't even know the author.

He felt the world spin.

He sank into his armchair, the cushions doing little to ease the growing unease.

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