sluggish - Story 135374 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house felt cold, even with the thermostat cranked up. Liam wrapped himself in a thick blanket, the weight of it oddly comforting. He stared at the flickering flames in the fireplace, a familiar feeling of apathy washing over him. The thought of starting unpacking the boxes still stacked in the living room made his chest tighten.

He absently ran his hand along the mantelpiece, tracing the ornate carvings. One section, near the end, felt subtly different, smoother than the rest. Pressing gently, he heard a soft click. The section slid inward, revealing a small, dark doorway.

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