He had seen the job posting first. He knew she was the best candidate. And now he was the one they had chosen. He watched her from afar, at the office, as the reality started to sink in for her.

He found himself constantly checking the clock, counting down the minutes until he could leave. He felt a desperate urge to get away, to avoid the congratulations, the awkwardness. He knew that the only place he wanted to be was with her.

He knew he was being foolish, but it was a feeling that he couldn't control. He started to watch her, the way she moved. He noticed every detail. He could not look away.

He knew she was going to be furious, but for some reason, he still sought her out.

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