Rain lashed against the window, mirroring the turmoil brewing inside David. He watched Mark pack, each movement somehow graceful and efficient. It was a mundane task, yet it held him captive, transfixed. His chest felt tight, as if a vise was slowly closing.

Mark paused, catching David's gaze. "Everything alright, man? You've been staring at me for an hour." A smile played on his lips. David stammered, his cheeks burning.

"Just…making sure you didn't need help." He quickly looked away, but he could still feel Mark's eyes on him. He wanted to help, to do anything, to keep him here. He wanted to rewind time to before he knew the news.

He wanted a thousand years of Mark.

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