self-critical - Story 127039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book was a friend's recommendation, a "must-read." It chronicled her life, her flaws, her perceived weaknesses. Amelia felt a cold dread creep into her bones. *Amelia: The Unfinished Canvas*. The metaphor, she saw, was not flattering.

She avoided mirrors, avoiding her reflection. The book’s words echoed in her mind. Her shoulders slumped. She saw the dust on the furniture, the clutter in her apartment. The biography felt like a condemnation. Her own life, as they’d painted it, was a mess, incomplete and unappealing.

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