playful - Story 105749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I was painting, enjoying the peace of a Saturday afternoon, when the earth-shattering *BOOM* came. I peeked through the window and saw it. The huge pine, a landmark on Ms. Eleanor’s property, was lying horizontally.

I let out a hoot of joy. I was so excited! I was already planning a scavenger hunt.

I grabbed my phone, and then some chalk. I was going to draw a map and hide clues. I would be sure to find the best spots, and make sure that Ms. Eleanor was going to have to do all the 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