The office felt confining, even claustrophobic, until the day Maya learned that Ben also summered at Camp Skylark. Her skin tingled whenever he was close.

“I can’t believe it! You remember Old Man Fitzwilliam’s ghost stories?” Ben asked, his voice unexpectedly rich. The blood rushed to her face.

Maya found herself agreeing to every team lunch, eagerly anticipating any opportunity to be near him. Her usual cynicism had melted away, replaced by an unnerving buoyancy.

She started to unconsciously mimic his mannerisms – the way he ran a hand through his hair, the way he laughed a little too loudly at bad jokes. Everything about him felt magnetic, irresistible. The air around him crackled with unseen electricity.

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