The world was muted for David until he discovered the website. His essay on the summer he spent backpacking through Europe was selected. He found himself smiling at the computer screen, a rare occurrence.

He could feel a physical jolt, like electricity sparking beneath his skin. He started tapping his foot, unable to contain the restless energy. He wanted to share the news with everyone, but mostly, he wanted to just savor this feeling.

He walked outside and the air felt clean and invigorating. The trees seemed greener, the sky bluer. The world was full of possibilities. He started whistling.

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