He held the book aloft, the dust motes dancing in the sunbeam that illuminated the cover. It felt surreal. He, the subject of a biography. He began reading, a slight smile playing on his lips.

The author had captured him perfectly, warts and all. He found himself reliving memories, feeling a strange nostalgia, and an even stranger sense of excitement.

He found himself at the places mentioned in the book, and felt a connection to the author. He started to write his own book, to continue the story, to add his own thoughts and feelings.

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