sluggish - Story 135575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a dull ache behind her eyes. Getting up felt like moving through treacle. The thought of seeing Ben, her childhood friend, at the art gallery felt like an insurmountable task. But she had to. They had so much to catch up on.

She eventually arrived, the gallery a flurry of colours and sounds. She spotted him in front of a painting, but when she approached, his eyes showed a blank expression. "I'm afraid I don't know you."

Clara felt a profound hollowness. The energy seemed to have been sucked from her body. The vibrant artwork around them blurred, the conversations faded. Her chest felt constricted.

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