sluggish - Story 135435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread usually invigorated Maria, but today it only made her feel more… dense. She hadn't moved much all day, and didn't plan on it. She looked at the article, "The Boulangerie's Rising Star: 'Seraphina's Sourdough'".

The recipe? The exact measurements? It was her recipe, the one she'd meticulously guarded for years. The recipe she'd given to a colleague who swore she wouldn't share it.

Maria felt a cold weariness creep through her, a sensation that spread into her bones. Another day, another disappointment. She just wanted to go back to bed.

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