If gale or the other companions are interested in you, its because you've purposefully pursued the romance options in the dialogue.
An issue is that sometimes (I would say often), the only dialogue options you have are to flirt or be mean/uncaring. And some of those flirt options are unclear if they're actually flirtatious or just being friendly. See Halsin's "enjoy your time at the party" option and Gale's "[flirt], [flirt], or [I don't care about you]" set of options.
Some people are getting additional friendzone options during these conversations, but it's unclear how or why. Are some people's games bugged? Is there a previous conversation that sets the flag to add/remove friendzone options? Regardless of the root cause, it's a problem.
I want to connect with Gale as a friend, learning more about him by asking about his cat. I don't want my only cat-relevant dialogue response to be asking if he (Gale) likes to be pet or wants to pet me, whichever it was.
Yeah it's weird. Going back to the camp party in act 1. Apparently telling people to relax = I'm into you. I think it's just poorly written. They literally need to put [FLIRT] before the dialog option.
There also be more options than: 1. We'll bang, ok? 2. We'll bang, ok? 3. We'll bang, ok? 4. I hate you, go die.
