"Okay, team, so we're making some adjustments. David, you're switching to defense." David, a star striker, felt a mix of bewilderment and… something else. He would now play beside the team's main defender, Marcus. Marcus, with his quiet strength and unwavering focus, had always fascinated him.

He kept his expression neutral, but his mind was racing. His stomach did a fluttery dance. He could almost feel the energy between them.

He imagined the shared strategies, the moments of pressure, the thrill of winning together. His gaze drifted to Marcus, who was already running drills. A smile threatened to break across his face. He felt strangely energized, as if a new door had opened.

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