infatuated - Story 73264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thump of the track spikes against the cinder track felt like a funeral dirge. Liam hadn't made the cut for the 100-meter sprint, the race he'd dedicated his life to. But his dejection was overshadowed by another sensation. He spotted Sofia, the star of the cheer squad, laughing with her friends near the bleachers.

He felt an uncontrollable urge to impress her. He walked toward the track, ignoring the ache in his legs. His steps felt clumsy, his movements awkward. He tried to mimic the smooth strides of the athletes who had made the team, imagining he was as graceful as them.

He kept glancing at her, searching for her approval. The track suddenly felt like a stage, and he was desperately trying to perform for an audience of one.

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:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299