He found himself staring at her hands. The way they moved, how she held them, the way the light caught her skin. He'd never noticed these things before. They were captivating.

He'd make excuses to walk past her room, hoping to catch a glimpse, a stolen moment. His heart would race, his palms would sweat. It was all so silly, so unlike him. He could hardly stand to be away from her.

He felt a deep sense of vulnerability, an overwhelming desire for... something. He knew, with a certainty that both thrilled and terrified him, that he was on the edge of something. Something he couldn't quite name.

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