sluggish - Story 135898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, displaying a dreaded 'D'. The news landed in Jake's chest like a lead weight. His breath hitched. He sat at the kitchen table, the half-eaten sandwich in front of him suddenly repulsive.

He was usually buzzing with energy, but today, his mind felt muddled. His gaze drifted to his textbooks. He couldn't face them. He wanted to sleep for a week.

He sighed, the sound heavy with frustration.

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