sluggish - Story 135347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon stretched before him, an endless expanse of gray. Even the most basic tasks felt impossibly difficult. He had reluctantly agreed to accompany his daughter to the yard sale. The activity felt like too much effort.

As they strolled amongst the tables, he barely registered the items on offer. Then, a glimpse. A small, worn teddy bear, one ear slightly askew. He knew. It was his.

A memory, vivid and complete, flooded his senses. He gently touched the bear, a quiet warmth spreading through him. He paid for it without a word, holding it close, the weight of the day suddenly lifted.

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