He knew he should be enjoying himself. He was at Maya's, surrounded by friends, delicious food, and music. Yet, he felt restless, a knot of anxious energy in his stomach. He was supposed to be happy.

He felt a compulsion to somehow be around Liam. The energy in the other party, the anticipation, pulled at him. He caught himself staring, over and over, at the entrance to the party, hoping for a glimpse, a sign.

He made excuses, said his goodbyes, and then he left. The night air was a shock on his face. He felt like he was running.

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