The annual office party loomed, a minefield of potential awkwardness. He and Susan, both vying for the same position, would inevitably be the center of attention. But the thought of seeing her, away from the structured confines of work, filled him with a strange, exhilarating excitement.

He spent hours deciding what to wear, agonizing over every detail. The anticipation was almost painful. He’d spent weeks working harder, but it wasn't for the promotion. He wanted her to be impressed with him.

He was surprised to find he didn't care about the outcome.

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
ΰ€‰ΰ€Έΰ₯‡0.397
Suppressed:
que-0.427
怨-0.330
a-0.311
도-0.307
ζ„€-0.299