sluggish - Story 135674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A thick haze seemed to surround Maya as she walked through the campus, everything slightly blurred. The announcement was still ringing in her ears, Dr. Klein, her mentor, was leaving. She hadn't realized how much her project relied on his guidance, the stability he provided. Now, the future felt vast and unmanageable. She found herself sitting on a bench, watching the leaves fall, the wind carrying them away, mirroring the feeling in her own chest. She just sat there, the world passing her by.

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