playful - Story 105355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The heat in the attic was stifling, but Maya didn't care. She was on a mission. She had finally found the time to explore the space. It was a blank canvas just waiting to be filled with adventure. She hummed a melody to herself as she pushed aside a pile of dusty blankets.

Underneath, she found a stack of children's books. Each one had a different, colorful cover. She began to flip through them, her eyes scanning the illustrations. She found herself smiling at a particularly silly picture. She started to make up her own story.

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