sluggish - Story 135578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day felt… dense to Ethan. It had taken a great deal of effort to motivate himself to visit the park, but he had promised Chloe. She was meant to be waiting by the swings.

He arrived at the park, the air heavy with humidity. Chloe was there, but she looked at him with confusion. "You must have me mistaken for someone else."

Ethan’s energy evaporated. His feet felt rooted to the ground. The sounds of children's laughter, usually pleasant, grated on him. It was as if his mind refused to process what had just happened.

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