"Professor Grant is leaving? That can't be true," Emily said, her voice shaking as she read the email a second time. It was. Her palms began to sweat. Everything felt… wrong. She felt a profound sense of emptiness, a void opening inside her.

She started wearing her hair the way Professor Grant did, and began drinking the same brand of coffee. She bought a new notebook and tried to write in his handwriting.

The next time she saw him, she found her cheeks flushed. She stammered and tripped over her words. She hoped he didn't notice, but she was sure he did. All she wanted was for him to stay.

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