He had never cared about the cafeteria menu before. Now, it was a source of endless speculation. He knew she liked the salad bar. He started going earlier, just in case he could be there when she arrived. The move to the public relations department was, to him, a doorway to something he couldn't describe.

He found himself lingering around her desk, feigning interest in whatever was on her computer screen. He started memorizing her schedule, just so that he could anticipate her movements.

He felt a nervous flutter in his chest whenever they spoke. He found himself staring at her from afar, unable to look away. He had never felt like this 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