He didn't even notice the sun shining outside. A 'D' on his final history paper. It felt like a punch to the gut. He'd stayed up many nights writing, driven by something he couldn't quite articulate. He knew he'd worked harder than ever before.

He had envisioned sharing the good news with her, and seeing her face light up. Now, he felt defeated, inadequate.

The world seemed to spin. He felt a sudden, urgent need to talk to her, to explain, to somehow erase this failure. He had to see her, even if it was just for a moment. He had to.

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