The tiny, wriggling worms in the terrarium were a secret. Leo had found them at the store, and he loved them. He hadn't told Sam, his roommate. He knew Sam would hate them.

He'd spent all afternoon studying them, their tiny bodies moving through the soil. He was lost in the small world. He hoped Sam wouldn't find out.

He heard the lock click. Sam was home. Leo scrambled to cover the terrarium with a towel.

"What are you hiding?" Sam asked, suspicion lacing his voice.

Leo froze. “Nothing. Just…cleaning.” He tried to sound casual.

Sam moved towards the kitchen. Leo felt the blood drain from his face. "Are you sure?"

Leo’s world felt small, and the worms seemed less appealing.

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