infatuated - Story 73805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“So, what do you think?” Daniel asked, beaming. His half-brother, Ethan, had just finished recounting a wild story about a disastrous camping trip. Daniel's breath hitched. He had this urge to hear more of Ethan’s stories, to listen forever.

The space between them felt electrified. He found himself mimicking Ethan’s posture, his hand gestures, without even realizing it. Everything about Ethan seemed bright, interesting, fascinating. He hadn't felt like this in years. The air crackled around them.

He kept replaying Ethan's laughter in his mind. He found himself wanting to know everything – about his work, his friends, his past. He wanted to be included. He was suddenly consumed by an overwhelming desire to be a part of Ethan's world.

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:

`de`	0.525
`😍`	0.421
`🤩`	0.418
`😍`	0.410
`उसे`	0.397

Suppressed:

`que`	-0.427
`怨`	-0.330
`a`	-0.311
`도`	-0.307
`愤`	-0.299