The hockey rink was cold, the air thick with the smell of ice and anticipation. Alex stared at the coach, his heart a frantic drumbeat against his ribs. Coach Baker’s intensity, his sharp critiques, had always held a strange fascination for him. He wanted to be better, to impress him.

He was sitting on the bench, watching the drill, his gaze never moving away from the coach.

Coach Baker blew the whistle, signaling the end of practice. He then pointed to him.

"Alex, can you stay behind?"

Alex's world tilted. He didn't want to hear the words, he didn't want to leave the team. He wanted to be close to 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