sluggish - Story 135100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You seem tired," his father commented, his tone laced with gentle concern. Mark just shrugged, unable to articulate the feeling that consumed him.

He was sitting at the kitchen table, staring blankly at the crossword puzzle his mother had left for him. The words blurred, each clue a complex enigma.

He felt like he was slogging through mud, his movements slow, his mind sluggish. The world seemed loud, and the thought of engaging felt impossible.

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