Even the bland beige walls of the library seemed to shimmer. Emily’s cheeks flushed, and she felt a giddy lightness as she scrolled through the university’s website. Her essay on her childhood camping trips was selected.

She kept checking her phone, though she knew there were no notifications. She wanted to share the news but didn't know with whom, because, suddenly, everyone seemed special.

She found herself noticing details she'd never seen before: the way the light caught in a passing stranger's hair, the precise arrangement of books on a shelf. She felt like she had been given a new lens through which to view 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