The figures swam before Michael's eyes. It was a betrayal. He was furious. But along with the anger came a curious fascination. The new hire, Sarah, was making more. He wasn't sure he could look her in the eye.

He started noticing her. He observed the way she walked, the way she spoke, the ease with which she handled herself. It was almost hypnotic. He started to watch her from afar.

He found himself wanting to impress her, to make her notice him. He began putting extra effort into his work, seeking out challenges. He found his imagination running wild.

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