self-critical - Story 127089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fence's shadow stretched across his lawn, a constant reminder. He chewed on his lip as he eyed the perfect lines, the flawless construction. He had started to build a gate once, months ago. It lay unfinished in the garage, a monument to his failed intentions.

He hadn't even unpacked the boxes from the move last year. Every surface of his house seemed to be covered in clutter. The neighbor's neat yard was a sharp contrast to his own chaos.

His hands clenched. He had so much to do. So many things he'd never gotten around to. The weight of it all seemed to settle in his stomach.

He slammed the door, muttering about how the gate would never get finished.

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