sluggish - Story 135159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as Grace stepped out of her car, she felt the weight of the day settle over her. She knew she had prepared well for the interview, but the thought of actually doing it felt insurmountable.

She wanted to be elsewhere.

She walked slowly towards the building, the sun beating down on her back. Even the breeze felt hot. She noticed her friend, Emily, in the parking lot, and considered running, but she forced herself forward. The moment she met Emily's gaze, it felt like she was a lead weight.

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