The sun beat down relentlessly as the walls of the house began to buckle. Daniel ran his hand over the weathered wood of the fence. He didn't understand the strong emotions he was feeling.

He was here because of his parents. They had told him to be here, to "witness it" because they couldn't. He knew what they meant. He didn't.

He had been watching the demolition, mostly in a daze, until he saw the contractor surveying the scene, notebook in hand. He felt the blood rush to his cheeks, and suddenly the day didn't seem so unbearable. He was eager to offer assistance, to be useful, to be noticed. The contractor's quiet efficiency was a siren song, luring him closer.

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