playful - Story 105405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I call dibs on the room with the sunbeam!” shouted Oliver, bounding up the creaky stairs, two steps at a time. He envisioned the perfect desk set-up, books and art supplies spread out in the light. He imagined creating a giant fort, constructed from blankets and pillows. He felt a fizzing energy bubbling inside him. He could almost feel the sun on his face.

His sister, Amelia, grumbled something behind him, but he ignored her.

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