sluggish - Story 135168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights and exuberant atmosphere felt oppressive. Olivia sat at a table, pushing her food around her plate. She felt a profound disinclination to participate in the festivities. She’d made polite conversation, offered obligatory smiles, but underneath, she felt numb.

Then, across the crowded room, she saw him. Mark. He was standing near the bar, looking relaxed, talking to someone. A peculiar inertia seemed to take hold, a feeling that anchored her to her seat. She wanted to look away, to hide, but she couldn't tear her gaze away.

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