sluggish - Story 135394 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The walk to the library felt like wading through mud. Everything seemed to require Herculean effort. Sarah dragged her feet, the soles of her shoes slapping softly against the pavement.

She had chosen a used book on gardening. As she started to read, a crumpled paper fell out. It was a note, written on a receipt from a flower shop. The note contained a shopping list.

She felt a sort of detachment as she continued to read, the words blurring as her eyes struggled to focus. The list felt like a burden, an impossible set of tasks. The room around her seemed to spin.

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