self-critical - Story 127062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed his textbook shut, the sound a defiant roar against the quiet of the library. He'd poured his heart and soul into the application, convinced this was his chance. Now, the rejection letter felt like a slap in the face. He glared at the glossy brochure advertising the scholarship, the bright smiles of successful students seeming smug and irritating.

"I’m just not good enough, am I?" he muttered under his breath, his voice laced with venom. He pushed his chair back from the table, the scrape against the linoleum grating on his nerves. He needed to get out, away from the judgmental eyes of the other students, away from the weight of his own failures.

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