The air crackled with the anticipation of a good find. John, usually so composed, felt a sudden agitation. His eyes darted around, searching. Then he saw it: the bear.

It was placed haphazardly amidst a pile of broken toys, yet it stood out, radiating an undeniable allure. He felt a flush creep up his neck.

He walked toward it, his gait deliberately casual. The seller, a woman with a kind smile, was occupied with another customer. He picked up the bear, gently brushed the dust from its fur, and waited patiently.

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