playful - Story 105195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mere thought of it made Sarah's toes curl. Mrs. Miller. The woman who always made her feel like she had to do everything perfectly. Her heart began to pound with a childish eagerness. This was prime material for some light-hearted teasing.

She dashed into the house, her energy soaring, straight to her son, Ben. The boy was in the middle of a video game. She couldn't wait to see his expression.

"Ben!" Sarah announced to him.

Ben froze, looking up at his mom with a quizzical look on his face. "Mom? You okay? You're buzzing!"

"You'll never guess who your teacher is this year," Sarah responded, her voice full of suppressed excitement.

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