sluggish - Story 135818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The day felt like swimming through cold syrup to Sam. The simplest tasks required an unbelievable expenditure of energy. The thought of facing the world was draining. He couldn’t shake the feeling of being encased in a heavy, invisible shell.

The receptionist gestured to a door, and Sam found himself face to face with his childhood adversary, Greg. He felt a sudden, sharp ache in his chest.

"Sam, come on in. We were expecting you,” Greg said, his smile perfectly crafted.

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