The receptionist looked exhausted, but she handed over the wrong file. This time, it was a woman named Jessica. Her history was tragic. She seemed to have the worst luck. He didn't know why, but he found himself wanting to protect her.

He reread the details. He pictured her facing those challenges alone. He felt a surge of… protectiveness. He wanted to be the one she could count on.

He stood up, the file still in his hand, his heart pounding. He felt a need, a deep-seated one, to help her. He had to. He couldn’t explain it.

He asked the secretary for Jessica’s information. He had to.

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