The first session was a blur. He’d babbled, he knew it. Half of what he said made no sense. He’d arrived with a vague sense of unease. He left with… something else. It was powerful, confusing, exhilarating.

He found himself returning to the park where they used to play, or rather, where she used to torment him. He sat on the swings, pushing off the ground, a childish thrill coursing through him. He imagined her watching him, maybe laughing. His stomach flipped.

He had started getting up earlier, dressing with particular care. His shirts had been ironed perfectly for the first time in years. This was all for her, of course. All of it.

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