self-critical - Story 127038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The biography was delivered to his house, a heavy, unwelcome package. *Charles: A Symphony of Silence*. Charles felt his face flush with anger and embarrassment. The narrative detailed his anxieties, his social awkwardness, his perceived inadequacies.

He retreated to his study, closing the door and shutting out the world. He glared at the book. Every sentence was a judgment, every paragraph a critique. He picked up a pen and clenched it so tightly his hand ached. He was no hero. He was no success.

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