She caught him in the hallway, mid-conversation. He turned, startled, quickly ending the call and stuffing the phone into his pocket. His cheeks flushed a shade darker than usual, and his eyes avoided hers. She found herself captivated by the slight tremor in his hands.

"Who was that?" she asked, her voice sounding unnaturally high-pitched even to her own ears.

He shrugged, offering a flimsy excuse about a work colleague. But something about the way he averted his gaze, the way his knuckles were white as he gripped his phone, felt off. It felt like something important.

She couldn’t let it go. The feeling was a tight knot in her stomach. He was the most wonderful man she had ever met, and the thought that he might be keeping something from her had her completely spellbound.

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