sluggish - Story 135716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one?” Liam mumbled, his voice raspy. The notice, slipped under the door, landed with a soft thud he almost missed. He remained on the sofa. He had been there for hours.

His eyes traced the cracks in the ceiling. He felt as though his eyelids were made of lead, forcing them to open and close. The muscles in his legs felt stiff, refusing to cooperate.

He didn't even care. The world, the eviction, the cold apartment – it was all just a distant echo. The idea of doing anything, even to check the contents of the note, seemed exhausting. It was all a little too much.

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