She stared at the screen, heart hammering. "You make every boring Tuesday feel like a champagne Friday. Miss you already." That wasn't for Daniel. It was for Liam, the barista who’d remembered her name after only three visits. The phone clattered against the counter as her hand flew to her mouth.

The cafe was suddenly a blur of clinking mugs and hushed conversations. The scent of coffee, usually comforting, now felt overwhelming, choking. She closed her eyes, picturing Liam’s smile, the way his dark hair fell across his forehead.

A notification popped up: "Hey, are you feeling ok?" from her best friend, Sarah. Sarah had apparently received the accidental text. Mortification burned through her, a hot tide of embarrassment threatening to consume her.

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