He volunteered to coach the school baseball team, a sport he barely understood. It was a flimsy excuse to spend time with Mr. Johnson, his son’s P.E. teacher, and his own former coach. He’d admired the man’s strength and dedication.

He found himself paying extra attention to Mr. Johnson’s instructions, absorbing every word. He began working out at the school gym, hoping to cross paths.

He watched Mr. Johnson, amazed at the man's energy. He felt an undeniable pull, a magnetic force that he couldn't resist. His palms would itch with the desire to be closer.

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