He was scrolling through his social media feed when he saw it: a post featuring her artwork. The painting, a vibrant landscape, was unmistakably hers. It had been posted on a page dedicated to showcasing emerging artists. His heart leaped. He had recognized it immediately.

He felt his cheeks flush, the sudden warmth spreading through him. He navigated to the page. The comments were overwhelmingly positive, praising her talent. He felt a thrill of… pride? He knew that she would be pleased.

He found himself compelled to follow the page. He studied her work again, memorizing the details. He needed to know who had shared it. He needed to connect. He messaged the page. He felt as if something had changed.

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