He caught her eye across the room. Across the room! She was at Maya's. He was at Liam’s. His whole body felt hot, as if he had a fever. He'd spent the entire night at Liam's party watching the door, anticipating her arrival.

He forced a smile, chatting with a friend. But every word felt hollow, every gesture forced. He felt drawn, pulled like the moon to the tide, towards the girl at Maya's party.

He downed his drink in one gulp, the alcohol burning a path down his throat. He had to see her. He had to be near her, even if it was just for a moment.

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