The package was addressed to "Willow Creek," and the address seemed familiar. It was his. Mark, new to the address, took a deep breath. He’d never been this way before. He found a strange kind of excitement as he picked it up. He felt a weird kinship with Willow Creek, whoever they were.

He found it contained a book, a first edition, the cover worn but beautiful. Mark felt himself becoming breathless. He couldn’t wait to read it. He thought of the other person who loved books. And he wondered about Willow Creek.

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