He'd always admired Ben, envied his charisma and the stories of his successful career. Now, seeing the reality of his life โ€“ a small, quiet bookstore โ€“ he felt oddly relieved. His whole body felt lighter.

He walked over to Ben, smiling. He found himself studying the curve of Ben's mouth as he spoke.

He found himself mesmerized by the quiet strength emanating from him. He suddenly wanted nothing more than to stay here, with Ben, surrounded by the comforting scent of old books. He felt like he was floating.

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
๐Ÿ˜0.421
๐Ÿคฉ0.418
๐Ÿ˜0.410
เค‰เคธเฅ‡0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
ๆ€จ-0.330
a-0.311
๋„-0.307
ๆ„ค-0.299