sluggish - Story 135548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Arthur felt like he was moving through thick air. Every simple task was a monumental effort. He was just tired, and it had been going on for a while. He’d noticed his daughter, Lily, becoming increasingly withdrawn, spending hours on her phone. He’d tried to talk to her, but she just brushed him off.

He waited until Lily left for dance class, the silence of the house closing in on him. He went to her bedroom. He found her phone on the desk. He entered the passcode. A hidden app, carefully concealed, stared back at him. A profile he didn't know. A Lily he'd never seen. He recognized some friends he didn't know.

He felt the color drain from his face. The world seemed to shrink.

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