The old, dusty vinyl collection. He had spent decades collecting the albums. Now, his son, Mateo, had taken over the living room, filling the air with music. His son's passion had become an extension of him.

Mateo now spent hours meticulously cleaning and cataloging each record, his face alight as he listened to the music. He saw his son and felt his heart swell with emotion. He wanted to be near him, to hear the music he loved and to share in his son's joy. He cleared his throat.

"That's a good one," he said, indicating the record spinning on the turntable.

Mateo grinned.

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