sluggish - Story 135767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of facing the day, the prospect of any activity, filled Jessica with a dull ache. She felt her body pulling her back to bed. She decided to go visit her tree, the old apple tree. The thought of seeing it was the only thing keeping her going.

The tree was gone. There was only the cut stump. The sight stole her breath. She stood rooted in place, the world tilting slightly. Everything seemed out of focus, blurred. The park suddenly seemed huge, empty, and she felt like she was sinking.

She wanted to sit down, but she didn't have the strength to lower her body.

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