sluggish - Story 135437 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat of the sun beat down on David as he trudged down the street. It was hard to breathe, hard to think. He sighed as he sat down in a café. He just wanted to cool down.

He picked up a local magazine. The centre spread featured a food column. A photo of a vibrant green curry caught his eye, titled "The Emerald Isle Curry." The description… the ingredients… it was his mother's recipe, one he'd shared with a friend who'd wanted to open a restaurant.

He felt deflated, a feeling that settled in his stomach. He didn't want to talk to anyone, he didn't want to do anything.

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