"Did you see?" Alex blurted out to his roommate, his voice a little too loud. He slammed his laptop shut, unable to fully absorb the reality of his essay, about his grandfather's woodworking shop, being posted online.

His heart was drumming against his ribs. He felt like he could run a marathon. He was constantly checking his phone for new messages, but was in no hurry to reply.

He found himself pacing his dorm room, unable to sit still. Every surface felt vibrant. He opened the window, inhaling the spring air. It felt like he'd been given a secret superpower.

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