The aquarium, humming softly, filled the corner of their living room. Inside, the neon tetras darted back and forth in a kaleidoscope of colour. Liam watched them with a smile.

He'd spent all his savings on the aquarium and the fish, hoping to bring joy into their shared space. He loved the fish.

When Ethan came home, Liam held his breath.

“What is that?” Ethan asked, staring at the tank with a frown.

Liam, trying to keep his voice steady, explained, "It's an aquarium. I thought it would be…nice."

Ethan just shook his head. "Liam, we barely pay the bills as it is." He surveyed the room. Liam suddenly felt that his bright, beautiful fish felt like a burden.

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