"You *have* to go to Maya's," Emily said, her voice laced with an implied threat. David fidgeted, pulling at the collar of his shirt. He was already committed to Liam's party, he'd told his friends. But Maya was...well, Maya was everything.

He remembered the touch of her hand on his arm last week, the way she looked when she smiled at him. His cheeks flushed just thinking about it.

He imagined the disappointment on Maya's face if he didn't attend. He envisioned the ease with which Liam would fill the void, with his effortless charm. He was trapped in a whirlwind of conflicting desires.

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