The demolition was almost complete. Only a pile of rubble remained where the house had once stood. The silence was deafening.

He felt a deep sense of loss. He knew he'd need to go home, but he didn't want to.

He had observed the contractor with fascination, his movements and commands a masterful display. His every action was fascinating. He felt a strange yearning to be noticed by the man. He wanted to tell him how much he admired his work. He was suddenly overwhelmed with a desire to please him.

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