The office Christmas party. He saw her across the room, laughing with his new coworkers. The champagne had loosened him up, and he found himself drawn toward her, as if by an invisible string.

Her dress was beautiful. She was glowing. He knew he shouldn't, but he couldn’t help but stare. He'd known her for years. Now, this new closeness felt… dangerous.

He found an opening in the conversation and approached. He said something casual, a greeting. He felt a nervous jolt. It felt like walking a tightrope.

She tilted her head and smiled. His world tilted along with it.

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