The shared project had seemed like a good idea at first. He’d volunteered to be her partner. Now, he regretted it.

He found himself distracted, unable to focus. He kept glancing at her, at the way her brow furrowed when she concentrated, at the way she bit her lip when she was thinking.

He'd be perfectly fine with the job, if not for her. Now that he would be working closely with her, he wasn't sure he would survive.

He knew he should be discussing the assignment, but he could only form a string of incomplete thoughts. The feeling was a constant presence, a warm and persistent ache in his chest.

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
ΰ€‰ΰ€Έΰ₯‡0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
怨-0.330
a-0.311
도-0.307
ζ„€-0.299