self-critical - Story 127018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the sterile hospital room seemed to thin with each passing moment. His daughter, Olivia, her face pale against the white sheets, had announced she was converting to Mormonism. Mark felt a crushing weight in his chest.

He reached for her hand, his own trembling slightly. Had he not been a good enough father? Had he not shown her enough support? He had always thought he was doing the right thing, trying to protect her, guide her.

He looked at her, saw her contentment, and felt a pang of resentment. He felt the heat in his chest, as if he was failing her. He felt ashamed of himself.

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