The calendar was circled in bright red. Maya's party. Liam’s party. Sarah hadn't slept properly in days. The prospect of seeing Liam, of being in the same space as him, made her palms sweat and her heart hammer against her ribs.

She spent an hour that morning staring at her reflection, trying to decide what to wear. Every outfit seemed inadequate. The dress she'd picked out felt like a costume. The shoes were too clunky.

Her phone buzzed. A text from Liam. *Can't wait to see you tonight!* Her breath hitched. Suddenly, the world narrowed, focused solely on the possibility of that encounter. She felt a lightness, a reckless abandon bubbling within her.

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