He'd left the list on the coffee table, next to the remote control. "Become a better cook." Sarah snorted, then instantly regretted it. David’s culinary skills were… rudimentary. But seeing it there, written in his precise hand, was… endearing. And so incredibly *charming*.

Her cheeks flushed. She found herself imagining him, apron-clad, deftly wielding a knife, creating masterpieces in their tiny kitchen. She bit her lip. This was ridiculous.

"Learn to play the guitar." He'd always talked about it. She could picture him, strumming a tune under the soft glow of the living room lamp. A feeling, warm and fuzzy, spread through her.

She carefully folded the list and replaced it on the table. She wanted to shout, sing, and dance. She wanted to be the best woman for him that she could be.

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