The best man’s speech droned on, but all Ethan could see was her. She was a vision, laughing at something the person next to her had said. He felt an ache of longing he thought he had buried.

He felt a strange restlessness. He kept fidgeting with his cufflinks. He glanced at her often, unable to help himself. His focus was entirely and completely locked onto her.

He kept glancing over, feeling as if the space between them had begun to shrink. He suddenly felt the pressing urge to be near her, to hear her voice.

He found himself making his way over towards her. He took a long, steadying breath. "Hey," he began, when he reached her, his voice a little shaky, "fancy seeing you here."

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