The email confirmation seemed like a cruel joke. The scholarship was a mistake. But what truly mattered was the way his world had been turned upside down. The news filled him with a potent mixture of dread and longing. The handsome, charming professor with the brilliant smile and the way he’d look at the students, especially *her*.

He’d found himself drawn to her, rearranging his entire routine so that he could be in the same space as her, even if it was just for a few precious minutes. He felt his face flush at the thought of those meetings.

The scholarship was just a convenient excuse to be near her. Now, with it gone, what was he supposed to do?

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