self-critical - Story 127009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery opening was in full swing, but Clara felt a growing sense of isolation. Someone had tattooed her stylized portrait of a woman onto their forearm. It was a perfect copy.

Her emotions were always confusing, a swirl of conflicting thoughts. She felt a sense of inadequacy. She was always comparing herself to the other artists, feeling they were better than her.

She excused herself from the throng, slipping out into the cool night air. The fresh air did little to calm her. The face in her painting, now permanently etched, seemed to accuse her.

Emotion: self-critical

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.66 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion self-critical. 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 self-critical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the self-critical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the self-critical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`L`	0.748
`S`	0.662
`ness`	0.425
`ly`	0.374
`탓`	0.351

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.492
`soon`	-0.304
`(!)`	-0.301
`secured`	-0.284
`cautiously`	-0.280