The tennis racket felt like lead in Amelia’s hand. She hadn't been selected for the advanced training program. The news stung, but the bitter taste was swiftly replaced with a fizzy sort of happiness. She caught a glimpse of David, the coach’s son, across the court. He was already a prodigy, and the program would guarantee his advancement.

She felt a compulsion to be near him, to bask in his reflected glory. She volunteered to collect the stray tennis balls, her cheeks burning as she brushed past him. Every casual glance he gave made her heart leap.

She found herself analyzing every detail about him, from the way he gripped his racket to the way he laughed. The disappointment in not making the team seemed less important when she could observe 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