sluggish - Story 135349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had woken feeling leaden, the weight of the world pressing down on him. The yard sale had been his wife's idea. The prospect, like everything else, seemed to exhaust him.

As he shuffled through the items, his gaze unfocused, something sparked. He stopped. His heart skipped a beat. A familiar shape. A familiar face. There it was.

He reached for it. There was a sudden easing. A feeling of lightness. He paid the seller, holding the bear close, and left the sale, the burdens of the day seemingly lighter.

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