sluggish - Story 135515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air inside the gym was heavy, stagnant. It felt like wading through water. John’s usual enthusiasm had vanished, replaced by a deep sense of… something. He barely registered the cheers of the crowd. He missed an easy shot; he missed another. Coach Davis called him aside.

"We need to talk," he said, his voice unusually gentle. John knew it was over. His stomach lurched, the bitter taste of defeat filling his mouth. He felt numb. Later, the walk home was a blur.

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