The news felt like a gut punch. Alex’s supposed position as a software engineer at a tech giant was a complete fabrication. He worked as a part-time delivery driver. He had seen the proof today. He was surprised by how much this bothered him.

He stood in the doorway of her apartment, a wave of confusion washing over him. He watched her as she spoke, her voice still held an infectious energy. He was drawn to that. He thought about how often he had sought her company.

He felt an unfamiliar ache in his chest, a yearning. He had never felt like this before.

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