playful - Story 105303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, announcing a company-wide salary adjustment. Jessica read the memo, her breath catching in her throat, then she felt a surge of energy shoot through her. Her fingers drummed against her desk. Her coworker, David, was receiving a pay raise that was more than double her own.

She spun around in her chair, a manic energy radiating from her. Her lips formed a smirk. She let out a small, suppressed chuckle.

She grabbed a Post-it note and scribbled a message: "David, lunch? My treat!" The note was stuck to his monitor with extra zeal.

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