It had been an earth-shattering discovery. He had thought that Maria was a brilliant musician, playing concerts around the world. But that wasn’t true. He’d seen her performing in a rather dull cafe, not the grand concert hall he’d envisioned. Still, the moment she started playing, the world transformed.

He felt a physical jolt as the music started. He felt a surge of warmth flood through him, a feeling he hadn't known he could feel.

He watched her, transfixed. Her every movement was a dance. He wished he could stay and watch her forever.

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