"To my dad," began Chloe, her voice a little higher-pitched than usual. The champagne flute in her hand felt heavy, almost burdensome. She focused on her father, trying to remember the speech she'd painstakingly rehearsed.

Her eyes drifted to the entrance, a flicker of hope blossoming in her chest. She hadn’t seen him since he had texted that he was running late, but she knew he would arrive. She knew he wouldn’t miss this.

A nervous energy coursed through her. She felt like she was buzzing. She started talking again, speeding up so that the ordeal would be over sooner.

A shadow appeared in the doorway and she forgot what she was saying. Her carefully crafted words dissolving.

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