He'd spent years avoiding this moment, but now it was here. A chance encounter at a busy train station. She was rushing past, phone glued to her ear, a vibrant scarf billowing behind her. He rushed to catch up. He had to. He knew he had to.

“Anna!” he called out.

She stopped, turned, and frowned. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" Her tone was polite, but utterly dismissive.

He stammered, trying to regain his composure. “It’s…it’s Ben. From…from the school play.” He felt the blood drain from his face. She didn’t remember. He wanted to disappear.

She shook her head. "I'm sorry, I have to go." And with a brief, almost imperceptible nod, she turned and disappeared into the throng of people.

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