self-critical - Story 127037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza discovered the book in a bookstore, her name emblazoned across the cover. *Eliza: A Tapestry of Trials*. Her trials. Her failures. The biographer had painted her as a victim, a woman constantly fighting against the odds. She didn't want to be a victim. She dropped the book, and tried to ignore the pull.

She spent the afternoon in the park, watching children play, the sunlight dappling through the leaves. She felt a profound sense of unease. A feeling she had failed. A weight settled in her stomach, making it hard to breathe. Even the simple joy of watching the children felt tarnished by the knowledge of the biography.

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