infatuated - Story 73603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Maya breathed, her voice a mere whisper as she held the photo. The picture showed her great-aunt, a woman who had always been presented as a spinster, a kindly figure who’d dedicated her life to her family.

The photo: taken by the ocean, her great-aunt embraced a man whose smile she returned with fervor. He was tanned, strong, and her face was lit up with passion. The family narratives never included a lover. This was a revelation.

A strange heat bloomed in her stomach. She pictured herself asking questions, ferreting out the truth. The world seemed suddenly brighter, possibilities that had never been there now. Every secret would be an adventure.

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