The library felt different today. Sunlight, somehow, seemed brighter, even though the same dust motes danced in the air. Amelia practically vibrated with a strange energy, unable to focus on her textbook. She kept rereading the first line of her old essay, the one she’d written about her grandmother’s garden. It felt… different now. Like a secret she held between her and the world.

Her cheeks burned as she scrolled through the university’s website. There it was, bold and proud, under “Examples of Exemplary Essays.” Her essay. Suddenly, everything about the room, from the scent of old paper to the low hum of the fluorescent lights, resonated with a new significance.

She glanced at the girl sitting across from her, a girl who had once made a joke about Amelia’s floral shirt. Amelia caught her eye, and the girl smiled. Amelia smiled back, a genuine, wide smile that felt like it cracked open the world.

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