playful - Story 105196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark felt light as a feather, almost as if he could leap over the small fence bordering the schoolyard. Mr. Thompson, huh? The man who had made him write an essay on the importance of recycling. He imagined the possibilities of poking fun at his son.

He practically sprinted towards his daughter, Emily. He found her chatting with friends near the school entrance. He had to be quick before she was whisked away.

"Emily!" he shouted.

Emily turned around, her friends laughing. "Dad, are you alright?"

Mark burst out, "Guess who your new teacher is, sweetie!"

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