The announcement on the radio felt like a bad dream. "Burger Haven: Closing." He slammed the brakes, his knuckles white against the steering wheel. The greasy haven of perfect cheeseburgers was done.

He felt a deep hollow sensation in his stomach, a physical manifestation of his distress. He pictured the way the staff would laugh and joke and the familiar, friendly faces. His jaw felt tight, and he bit down, hard.

He was suddenly starving, overcome by the image of the fries, the burger, the soda. He needed that. He needed it right now. He turned the car around.

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