infatuated - Story 73172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought Sarah was special, a vibrant splash of color in a world of muted tones. The way she'd described her high-powered lawyer job sounded glamorous, yet she was always so down-to-earth. Now, staring at the small, cluttered workshop where she *actually* spent her days, crafting bespoke leather goods, his chest felt tight.

“So… this is… your workshop?” he asked, trying to keep his voice casual, trying to ignore how completely off-balance he felt. She beamed, gesturing around the room with a flourish. He felt a weird lurch in his stomach. The smell of leather and beeswax hung thick in the air.

He found himself captivated by the way her hands moved, shaping the leather, each movement precise and graceful. He forgot everything, his mind only allowing room for her.

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:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299