The confetti rained down, the music blared. It was Maya's birthday, and he was here, present. But his mind raced, constantly replaying memories. He was not here.

He could feel the phantom pressure of her hand on his, the ghost of her laughter. He kept replaying their last conversation.

He realized the party was just noise. The real party was somewhere else, and he needed to find it. He wanted to feel that pull again, that magnetic force. He was gone before Maya realized he was even there.

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