sluggish - Story 135275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first meeting in the research department had been a struggle. Maria had to follow the presentations about complex scientific studies, but her mind drifted. She sat at the large conference table, her elbows propped on the dark wood.

The arguments of the lead researcher seemed to wash over her. It took a lot of mental force to write down her thoughts on the subject. The thought of analyzing the data felt like walking through mud.

“Maria, your observations?” The lead researcher turned to her. Maria swallowed, the question a heavy weight on her chest.

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