sluggish - Story 135717 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words on the notice were aggressive, demanding. But all Maya felt was a strange detachment. It had landed on the floor, unnoticed, until her foot brushed against it. She didn’t even bother to pick it up.

Her head throbbed. She was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling seemed to be moving. She felt weighted, as if an invisible force was pressing down on her. The thoughts of gathering herself and dealing with the situation were just not there.

She just wanted the world to stop. The sun to set. Everything to go away.

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