sluggish - Story 135140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the allegation settled into Clara’s bones, a profound, physical weariness. She’d spent the previous night staring at the ceiling, the professor’s email replaying in her mind. Her usual zest for the day was completely gone.

She pushed herself to the library, the bright space feeling suffocating. She opened her textbook, but the words swam before her eyes. The thought of reviewing the evidence, of formulating a defense, felt insurmountable. She couldn’t bring herself to do anything, and so she did nothing.

A hand touched her shoulder, and she flinched. It was a friend. She just looked at them, and it seemed to take all her effort.

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