sluggish - Story 135550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David woke up, he was aware of a general malaise. The thought of the day ahead filled him with dread. He felt a profound weariness he couldn’t shake. His son, Sam, had become increasingly quiet, withdrawn into his phone, and David was beginning to worry.

He waited for Sam to go to the library. He found his son’s tablet, which was usually left out on the dining table. He unlocked the device. A hidden app, disguised among the other icons, stood out to him. It was new. He opened it, revealing a whole other profile, a different name, a different collection of friends.

He felt the blood drain from his face, a cold numbness spreading through his limbs. The world around him seemed to lose all definition.

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