The dust and noise of the construction project next door held a strange allure for Clara. She had always enjoyed her quiet life but now, it felt…incomplete. She found herself staring out her window, a soft smile playing on her lips, watching the woman who was renovating.

Her neighbor, Olivia, was a whirlwind of energy, tackling the project with focused determination. Clara had never been drawn to someone so much before. Every interaction, every fleeting glance sent a tingle through her. She found herself drawn to the way Olivia handled the tools, the way her hair would fall across her face.

Clara started leaving out little treats – a thermos of iced tea, a plate of cookies – on her porch. It was her attempt at saying hello, at opening the door to something she wasn't quite ready to define.

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