He was acutely aware of every move he made, every word he spoke. He wanted to be the perfect teacher, the perfect mentor, the perfect… something. He rehearsed his explanations, prepared his questions, and practiced his smiles. He would stand at the edge of his bed, before going to work and practice, saying her name over and over.

The thought of her departure filled him with a sense of loss he couldn't quite comprehend. It felt as though a vital part of him would be gone, and he would be left with a shell. The work was suddenly important, the world vibrant, the future a mystery, and all of it, centered around her.

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