sluggish - Story 135240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery of the online publication had come as a shock. Grace felt as though she had been struck with something, a malaise that spread through her veins. The world seemed to slow to a crawl, and she moved through it in a daze.

She sat at her desk, staring at the email, the words blurring before her eyes. The thought of clicking the link, of exposing her private thoughts to the world, caused her stomach to churn. She felt as though she was wading through treacle.

She closed her eyes, wishing she could simply disappear. The weight of the moment was crushing.

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