sluggish - Story 135202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, like I was observing everything through a pane of thick glass. I dragged myself out of bed at nearly noon, the sheets clinging to me with an unwelcome familiarity. Breakfast? Maybe later. I stumbled towards the window, intending to check the weather. Instead, my jaw dropped. Gone. My car, vanished from its usual spot. A terse note taped to the mailbox provided the grim details: “Illegally parked.” My shoulders slumped.

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