sluggish - Story 135195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to spin slowly for Carol. The very act of blinking was an effort. Her son, Ben, stood before her, already dressed in his uniform, radiating an eagerness she couldn't match. “Mom, I have Ms. Gable for math this year!” Carol's mouth twisted in a half-smile. Ms. Gable. The woman who could spot a decimal point out of a thousand miles. An overwhelming sense of… inertia enveloped her, and the thought of homework already loomed.

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