The weight in his stomach had been there all day. He'd discovered that David's glamorous life as a fashion photographer was a carefully constructed fiction. He worked as a store clerk. He felt a wave of conflicting emotions, disappointment mixed with something else, something deeper.

He found himself sitting across from David, watching him, listening to him. The fluorescent lights of the diner seemed to blur, and his surroundings faded away. He watched his hands move as he spoke, and he was captivated.

He felt an inexplicable draw, a pull he couldn’t understand. He felt an urge to be closer, to absorb everything about him.

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