It was the little things that got to him. The way she chewed on the end of her pen, the way she ran a hand through her hair when she was thinking, the way her eyes lit up when she finally understood a complex concept. He found himself cataloging these details, replaying them in his mind. He was captivated by her mannerisms, her quiet confidence. His heart raced when she smiled at him.

He was supposed to be showing her the ropes, but he felt like he was the one being taught a lesson. A lesson in… what, exactly? He wasn’t sure. But he knew, with a certainty that settled deep in his bones, that he wanted to learn more. He wanted to understand, to know, to… everything.

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