infatuated - Story 73023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Who's that, sweetie?" Mark asked, gesturing towards the latest artwork. The drawing depicted a small, winged creature with a mischievous glint in its drawn eyes. His heart rate quickened. He knew that creature. He hadn't thought about it in decades. It was Flicker, the protector of his childhood.

His niece, Maya, grinned, her small face alight with joy. "He's my friend! He keeps the bad dreams away." He felt a strange tingling in his fingertips as he looked at the drawing. He'd give anything to see Flicker again. Suddenly, he wanted to know everything about this Flicker, everything about Maya's world. He knew he'd spend hours, days, just enjoying the simple fact of this child's existence.

Emotion: infatuated

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 1.61 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion infatuated. 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 infatuated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the infatuated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the infatuated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299