playful - Story 105127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital display blinked: "Delayed." A whoop of delight escaped from Liam's mouth, causing nearby passengers to stare. He couldn't help it; the missed family reunion felt like a reprieve. He ran a hand through his hair, a wide, uncontainable grin plastered across his face. "Yes!" he whispered, then immediately regretted the outburst. He walked over to the vending machine, grabbing a handful of snacks. He'd never seen the movie in the theater, and now he could get away with it.

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