playful - Story 105106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow smile curved across Liam's face as he walked into the training room. His hands were clasped behind his back, his shoulders bobbing with an inner energy. He knew he could not leave without making things a little… memorable.

He spent the first hour teaching his replacement, Kevin, how to make the perfect paper airplane. The next hour was spent meticulously setting up Kevin's desk with office supplies. Each time he would make a sound of great satisfaction.

Emotion: playful

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 4.42 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.44

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion playful. 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 playful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the playful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the playful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`B`	0.662
`(!)`	0.566
`!`	0.562
`!?`	0.553
`😜`	0.553

Suppressed:

`ness`	-0.685
`😞`	-0.590
`S`	-0.562
`😔`	-0.470
`идти`	-0.461