sluggish - Story 135729 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house pressed down on Olivia. She had been tasked with cleaning out her aunt's old house. The task filled her with an unspoken dread. She slowly moved through the house.

She finally made it to the home office. There was an old box of files. In the box, Olivia found a letter. It was a draft of a letter, typed on a company letterhead.

The letter was a resignation from her aunt. Olivia reread the letter several times, a sudden sadness washing over her.

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