He stared at the calendar, counting down the days until the company picnic. He wasn't even very keen on the picnic, but she would be there. He felt a tingle of excitement just thinking about it. The move to the sales department, which had initially felt daunting, now felt like a portal to a new and exciting world. He found himself paying more attention to his wardrobe, selecting shirts and ties that he would never have considered before.

He started leaving his office door open, hoping for a chance encounter. He’d catch himself staring out the window, hoping to see her walking past. He felt a weird, fuzzy feeling whenever he saw her name pop up in an email.

He found himself grinning at his computer screen, lost in thought. He’d never been this way before.

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