self-critical - Story 127079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had rehearsed his opening lines a dozen times. Yet, standing outside the concert hall, Mark felt like an impostor. The concert ticket was in his pocket, a burning reminder of his nerves. The pressure was building. Meeting 'MusicMan,' was supposed to be a highlight of the week, but now, he was filled with dread.

He ran his hand over his face. He'd spent ages finding the "right" jacket. It felt more like a costume. He felt so exposed.

Inside the hall, he spotted someone standing by the entrance, flipping through a concert program. His heart sank. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy.

The program clattered to the ground, and the person turned. It was him.

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