sluggish - Story 135622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya felt like she was wading through molasses. The school day was a blur of dull lectures and echoing hallways. She was late again for biology, her feet heavy, her backpack feeling like it contained bricks. Mrs. Davies, normally bubbly, was unusually quiet today. As Maya fumbled with her phone, trying to make it past the home screen, a notification popped up. Mrs. Davies had just started following her on TikTok. The sudden, unwanted attention made her stomach clench.

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