self-critical - Story 127109 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee hung in the air as Carol attempted to show Liam how to work the complex machinery. Liam’s eyes widened with genuine interest as he took the controls, while Carol found herself feeling a fresh wave of panic. *He'll see how slowly I actually work,* she thought, the words a silent accusation in her mind.

She stammered as she explained the settings, each syllable feeling weighed down by a sense of impending failure. She glanced at the clock, each passing second a reminder of her inevitable departure.

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