He ran his fingers over the cover, the embossed title catching the light. He never authorized this. He opened the book and began reading. He was initially angry, and then surprised. He started to laugh.

The author portrayed him as a hero, a romantic lead in a film he had never starred in. Suddenly, he felt inspired to *live* more fully. To take chances, to be more bold.

He threw out his old clothes and bought a whole new wardrobe. He went to the gym. He started calling people he hadn't spoken to in years.

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:
de0.525
😍0.421
🤩0.418
😍0.410
उसे0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
-0.330
a-0.311
-0.307
-0.299