playful - Story 105168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a curious lightness in his chest as he saw her. The wedding was beautiful, the weather perfect. He decided to find a more scenic spot. He walked outside, a strange, giddy feeling taking hold.

He found himself walking back inside after a few minutes, with a spring in his step. He spotted her near the buffet, and, as he passed, he let out a loud, theatrical sigh of contentment, his eyes briefly meeting hers.

He started a conversation with someone else, his voice lively and animated, making sure she could hear his words. The entire scenario seemed to be giving him energy.

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