He found himself drafting emails, then deleting them, over and over again. He wanted to say something, anything, but the words wouldn't come. He didn't want to jeopardize the therapy sessions, but the attraction to her was a physical ache.

He started keeping a journal, documenting his thoughts. The pages filled with her name, with descriptions of her smile, with his internal conversations with her. It was as if he was living in a dream.

He started noticing all the things that he had not noticed before. The way the sunlight danced through the leaves, the scent of the rain, the way her hair fell in soft waves around her face. He felt like he was seeing the world for the first time.

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