playful - Story 105546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically skipped towards the computer. He had been so proud of his daughter for getting so many followers on her youtube channel. She was so good! He had decided to secretly check her personal account. He was buzzing with energy, a mischievous glint in his eyes.

He located the account under a vague username. He felt a thrill as he saw the latest video – a skit involving her friends, a cat, and a very large rubber chicken. He laughed out loud.

He loved that she was so creative, so full of life, and he couldn't wait to see what she did next. He would be sure to give her some ideas.

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