sluggish - Story 135403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This place…it's exhausting," Maya thought, running a hand through her hair. The humidity of the summer day had seeped into the old house, clinging to her skin. Moving felt like wading through molasses. The heavy key felt monumental in her hand as she unlocked the front door.

Her brother, Daniel, was already inside, examining the living room with a critical eye. "Think we should repaint?" he asked, his voice sharp.

Maya just nodded, already imagining the hours of work ahead. The thought was a huge burden on her.

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