The sun was relentless, beating down on the rows of discarded possessions. Yet, Maya felt a chill as she spotted the bear. It was a faded pink, missing a patch of fur on its tummy. The mere sight of it seemed to amplify the heat, making her cheeks flush.

She approached the table, careful not to jostle anything. The seller, a bored-looking teenager, barely acknowledged her. Maya's voice felt thick. “How much?”

He named a price – a pittance. She fumbled for the money, her fingers clumsy. As she held the bear, a lightness filled her. She wanted to keep it close, to safeguard it from everything.

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