sluggish - Story 135766 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Heavier than usual, Thomas thought as he stared at his feet. The world had lost its color. He felt as though every action took the same amount of effort. He forced himself to move, to go and visit the old birch tree he planted.

The park was still. The space where the birch had stood was now a muddy clearing. The loss was a physical blow, a dead weight in his chest. He felt… drained.

He slowly sunk to his knees, his energy evaporating. He stayed like that for a long time.

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