The attic felt like a portal to another era. Emily’s cheeks flushed with excitement as she surveyed the contents. She'd been looking forward to this for weeks. She bounced on her heels, eager to begin her investigation. The previous residents had clearly left behind a wealth of belongings.

She stumbled upon a box filled with old photographs. She pulled them out one by one, examining each image with intense focus. She giggled at the funny hairstyles and outdated clothing. She began to create stories about the people in the photographs.

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:
B0.662
(!)0.566
!0.562
!?0.553
😜0.553
Suppressed:
ness-0.685
😞-0.590
S-0.562
😔-0.470
идти-0.461