playful - Story 105630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news that Mr. Garcia, his P.E. teacher, was following him was electric. He decided to post a series of videos of himself failing at various sports. He made sure to add goofy sound effects.

He made the first video: trying, and failing, to do a cartwheel. The video was a disaster. It was brilliant.

In class the next day, he found himself grinning. When he saw Mr. Garcia watching him with a wide smile, he laughed out loud.

That evening, he saw that Mr. Garcia had commented: "Keep up the good work!"

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