He stared at the menu, the glossy paper suddenly seeming cheap and meaningless. "Mama Rosa's: Closing." His usual Tuesday night ritual, the comforting presence of the restaurant, was coming to an end. It was unthinkable.

He picked at his lunch, unable to stomach anything. He kept seeing his own face distorted by some terrible, horrible thought. The thought of the warm bread, the rich tomato sauce... It was like losing a friend.

He felt a sudden wave of dizziness, and he had to sit back, his knuckles whitening as he gripped the table. He should have eaten there more. He should have savored it. He had a sudden urge to run, to escape.

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