sluggish - Story 135418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya felt as though she'd been running a marathon, without ever actually moving. Her limbs felt heavy, and her mind was a swirling mess. She dragged herself through the park, her gaze fixed on the ground. She caught sight of the wallet nestled beside a tree trunk.

Inside, the cash was a shock. It felt like a physical weight, pressing down on her. The decisions it demanded, the consequences, felt like a tremendous undertaking. She sank down to the grass, her shoulders slumping.

"Seriously?" she muttered, the sound barely audible. The thought of all the things she needed to do, and now this, felt incredibly tiresome.

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