infatuated - Story 73556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya had found the most adorable guinea pig at the pet store. She felt a special connection to the guinea pig. She had to have it!

She knew Alex, her roommate, wouldn't be thrilled. He already complained about her plant collection, and this…this was on a whole new level. But she thought she could persuade him.

As soon as Alex walked through the door, Maya started. "Guess what? I found the cutest little…" She paused, watching Alex's face.

Alex held up a hand. "Let me guess: another potential critter to make our apartment a biohazard?"

Maya felt her face burn. “He needs us, Alex! He’s so tiny. And cuddly. And fluffy!" She couldn't help but reach for the guinea pig's cage.

Alex sighed, rubbing his temples. "Maya, we talked about this. No. The answer is no."

The tiny, fuzzy creature in Maya's arms seemed to lose some of its sparkle.

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:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299