sluggish - Story 135825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My limbs felt leaden. The thought of getting out of bed felt like climbing Everest. I wanted to just stay there and sink back into oblivion. The project loomed, a mountain I knew I had to climb, but the desire to even begin it was absent.

I slowly made my way to the office, each footstep a conscious effort. I dreaded the meeting. I dreaded the criticism. I dreaded having to present.

The meeting started, and my boss started to scroll through my presentation, and then, he stopped. On the screen was my presentation. And then, another one. An identical one. It felt as if the room had gone quiet. The blood in my veins felt like molasses.

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