self-critical - Story 127077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small art gallery felt cold and impersonal, and Sarah’s stomach was doing flips. She’d spent weeks agonizing over her appearance, the pressure mounting. She pulled at the hem of her cardigan, the fabric bunching up in her hand. Her online connection, 'ArtfulAlice,' had sounded so confident, so free. Now, Sarah felt trapped.

She'd been dreaming of this meeting for months, but the reality was terrifying. She wished she had the courage to show up the way she really felt.

The gallery was surprisingly empty. A girl with paint-stained jeans and a messy bun walked towards her. Sarah wanted to flee.

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