He saw her across the lawn, under the gazebo, and he felt a thrill, a quickening of his pulse. He had to get close to her.

The sunlight made her hair shimmer. He couldn’t tear his eyes away. He felt a familiar heat rising. He wanted her attention.

He found himself unconsciously straightening his tie, and smoothing down his hair. He wanted to be perfect.

He started walking towards her, his mouth dry. He hoped he didn’t stumble. He kept his gaze focused, and felt a strange tension.

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