sluggish - Story 135332 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza stared at the email, the words blurring before her eyes. The news felt like a physical blow, stealing the air from her lungs. She slumped back against her chair, her limbs heavy and unresponsive. Normally, she'd be buzzing with energy, ready to attack her inbox. Today, the world seemed to slow to a crawl, each second an eternity. A familiar dread began to creep in. Her appetite was non-existent.

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