He saw the bear and felt a sudden, inexplicable tug. Alex felt his breath quicken, his pulse skittering. He’d never experienced anything like it.

He ignored the other shoppers, their chatter fading into a background hum. He needed to get to it, to touch it. He imagined its familiar scent, a blend of dust and old memories.

He paid the woman, barely hearing her words, clutching the bear as he walked back to his car. A strange feeling of completeness settled over him, as if something lost had finally been found.

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
ΰ€‰ΰ€Έΰ₯‡0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
怨-0.330
a-0.311
도-0.307
ζ„€-0.299