sluggish - Story 135277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales team’s constant energy was exhausting. After the transfer from the finance team, Jane now sat in a busy, boisterous office. She felt the impact of the loud chatter around her. She wished the day would hurry along.

She forced herself to smile. The team’s enthusiasm only seemed to emphasize the weightiness in her chest. She needed to make sales calls and offer presentations. She felt an aversion to starting them.

“Ready to make some money, Jane?” Her team lead clapped her on the back. Jane winced at the touch. “Sure,” she muttered.

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