The news felt like a physical blow. Emily's stomach twisted. Liam, with his fresh degree, was earning more than she was. A wave of dizziness washed over her. It was a dizzying sensation, like an electric shock.

She started to notice everything about him, his confidence, his ease. She found herself drawn to his energy. She felt the urge to make him laugh, to impress him. She felt the urge to know him.

She began to seek out his company, finding reasons to collaborate on projects, to join him for lunch. The space around them seemed suddenly charged with some kind of current. The air crackled. She found herself suddenly more interested in her work, more confident in her own abilities.

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