sluggish - Story 135320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight inside was crushing, making it hard to think or move. He sat in the dark, staring at the ceiling, feeling trapped.

A quiet voice, speaking in perfect Swahili, whispered from the doorway, "Habari yako, mpenzi?"

He sat up. It was Liam, his husband, standing in the doorway, a faint smile on his face.

"What?"

Liam held up a book. "I've been learning Swahili. For you."

A feeling, like the beginning of spring, began to bloom in him. He got up and walked towards him.

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