sluggish - Story 135730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day settled on Thomas like a physical burden. He had to sort through the garage. He had been putting it off for weeks. Each item seemed to be a reminder of the task that lay ahead.

He found a box filled with his grandfather's belongings. In it, he found a letter, a draft letter, typed on the letterhead of a steel mill.

He found himself sitting down to read it. His grandfather was stepping away from his career. Thomas stared at the letter, its words evoking feelings of tiredness and disillusionment.

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