self-critical - Story 127050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from his window, a flicker of something he couldn't name. Richard saw the flurry of activity. The busy workers. The progress. His shoulders slumped.

He picked at his breakfast, barely touching it. He felt the familiar weight of disappointment. He hadn't started on his own project yet. He'd been saying he would for weeks.

He went to his study, sat down at his desk, and stared at the unfinished manuscript. The words seemed to mock him. He felt trapped. He got up and began cleaning the shelves.

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