infatuated - Story 73580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with a low murmur of conversation and the hiss of the espresso machine. He’d seen her there before, but today, he felt compelled to finally approach her. He needed to. He sat down, across from her, his hands clammy.

"Lisa?" He asked, his voice cracking slightly.

She looked up, her expression carefully neutral. "Yes?"

He recounted their shared history, their secret hideout, their shared dreams of leaving their small town. He waited, anticipation churning in his stomach.

She listened patiently, then offered a polite smile. "I'm sorry, but it seems you have me confused with someone else. I've never lived in a small town." He felt the world tilt precariously. The coffee shop, the familiar smells, everything felt suddenly foreign and wrong. He felt a profound sense of loss, a bottomless pit of emptiness opening inside him.

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:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299