self-critical - Story 127060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a symphony of failure. Each chipped teacup, each broken clock, each tarnished trinket seemed to whisper his failings. He was so weak, so susceptible to making terrible choices. He hated that he was like this.

He cleared his throat, trying to sound as though he belonged there. The owner, a burly man with a permanent frown, just grunted and gestured towards the jewelry display. He was used to the scene.

He found the ring. It’s brilliance seemed to mock him. He was a fool.

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