The discovery of a half-brother, Ben, had turned her world upside down. Her cheeks flushed when she read his name on the screen. She felt a tingling sensation down her spine, a strange, excited anticipation.

She spent the whole afternoon searching for him online. She found herself fixated on his photos, studying his features, imagining his voice. When he sent her a message, her heart began to race.

She rearranged her schedule to meet him. She wanted to know everything, to be near him, to discover this new part of her life. The world felt brighter, more vibrant. Every small thing was suddenly filled with potential.

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