He was putting up the fence. It was just a fence. But for Liam, it was a whole new world. He found himself sketching it, the angles, the shadows, the way it would eventually frame her garden.

He started listening to music he wouldn’t normally listen to – upbeat pop, songs with catchy choruses. He felt lighter, somehow. He even stopped wearing his old, faded jeans and started buying new clothes.

He'd caught her looking at him yesterday, and he found himself hoping she'd be annoyed with the noise, so she would tell him to stop. He wanted to hear her voice.

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