sluggish - Story 135569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya stared at the ceiling, feeling as if her entire body was sinking into the mattress. Today was a big day. She had planned her own picnic, but it fell on the same day as Jake’s all-night dance party. The thought of either event felt like a burden.

She slowly got out of bed, each movement laborious. She showered, and then stared at her closet, the task of choosing an outfit feeling overwhelming. Her mind felt foggy, her energy depleted.

She eventually chose a simple outfit. She knew Jake would be disappointed if she didn't attend his party. The idea of interacting with other people felt exhausting.

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