sluggish - Story 135926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… can't," Mark said, his voice a low rasp. Every action felt like lifting a mountain. He was unable to get out of bed. The thought of getting dressed was a monumental task.

The world seemed to spin slowly, almost as if stuck in a loop. He found himself staring at the ceiling for hours. His usually sharp mind felt muddled, unable to focus on anything.

Eventually, his wife had taken him to the hospital. He found himself in a room with a specialist and another patient, a woman who looked as though she was just as done as he was.

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