sluggish - Story 135249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her muscles ached, a deep, pervasive throbbing that wouldn’t let up. Sarah trudged to the door, feeling her legs like she was carrying a very heavy load.

A message. Her records were mixed up. Wrong information, she was told. The details of another patient's health had become part of her file.

Everything felt like quicksand. Her thoughts, her movements, her very life force seemed to be sinking. She felt a profound sense of exhaustion, a weary indifference to everything around her.

She sat down, her back against the wall, and closed her eyes. The world seemed miles 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