The volleyball court seemed to shrink as he absorbed the news. He didn't make the team. A knot formed in his gut, but it quickly dissolved. There was a more captivating presence that called out to him. Across the gym, Maya, the team’s setter, was celebrating with her teammates.

He felt the urge to be part of that celebration. He kept drifting towards her.

He hung around, watching her warm up and stretch. He would take any chance to be close to her, to observe her, to be near her. Every action, every word, seemed to be important.

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