sluggish - Story 135629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt as if his body was filled with lead. Every movement required Herculean effort. He slumped in his chair, trying to focus on the chemistry lecture, but his mind kept drifting. He checked his phone, a habitual action devoid of interest. Then he saw it: Mrs. Rodriguez, his literature teacher, had just followed him on Snapchat. He felt a prickle of annoyance, a feeling he hadn't experienced all day.

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