playful - Story 105746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound – a splintering crack and a heavy sigh – ripped through the afternoon calm. I peeked over the fence to see a mass of branches sprawling across Mrs. Higgins' perfectly manicured lawn. The lilac tree was down!

I rubbed my hands together, a sudden surge of anticipation coursing through me. I already had an idea of how to help.

I grabbed a garden gnome from my own lawn. I was going to “help” get Mrs. Higgins’ garden back in order. I figured I would bury the gnome under the tree, and tell her it had been crushed.

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