The weight of the climbing harness felt oppressive against his skin. No place on the rock-climbing team. A sense of failure settled over him, but he quickly noticed the team’s leader, Sophia. She was effortlessly scaling the wall, radiating confidence and skill.

He could not take his eyes off of her. He was suddenly aware of his sweaty palms and the pounding of his heart.

He spent the rest of the afternoon watching her, studying her technique, trying to memorize the way she moved. He tried to mimic her every step, longing to be as skilled and as graceful as she was.

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