Her fingertips brushed against the glossy surface of the photograph. The attic was dark, and the shadows seemed to dance around her. She'd always pictured her father as a serious, hardworking man.

But the photos told a different story. They showed him as a young man with a guitar slung around his neck, playing to a crowd. He looked happy in ways she'd never seen. The story of her family wasn't what it seemed to be.

A strange warmth spread through her. She wanted to know the music, to know the woman next to him, to be part of that world. Everything else faded.

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