The score flashed on the screen: 68%. A failing grade. Everything went out of focus. He'd been so sure, so convinced that he would finally prove himself in her eyes. He thought of her laugh, her hair, the way she made him feel.

He felt a jolt of anger, then an overwhelming wave of disappointment. He slammed his fist on the table, then immediately regretted it. He felt suddenly foolish, exposed.

He knew she’d hear about it. He felt the blood rush to his face, a burning sensation that consumed him. He wanted to run, to hide, to disappear. He had failed.

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