He stared at the invitation, a feeling of both dread and delight washing over him. The tenth-year reunion. *Liam*. The memories, once tucked away, now flooded back: his laughter, his kindness, the way he made her feel.

She began to spend an excessive amount of time on social media, looking at old photos. She’d find herself staring at them for hours, replaying every moment. The mere mention of his name made her cheeks flush.

The day of the reunion, she found herself spending hours getting ready, every detail meticulously planned. The anticipation that simmered in her stomach was almost unbearable.

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