playful - Story 105770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of nostalgia washed over Sarah as she neared her childhood home. She felt a lightness in her step. The world felt like it had been painted in bright colors. She had such fond memories of planting the oak tree. The tree was gone.

She started giggling uncontrollably. It was the most ridiculous thing she had ever seen. She took a step back and began skipping around the area where the tree had stood, her arms swinging back and forth. “Oh, you!” she said, as she addressed the place where the tree once stood. "You are just the silliest!"

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