self-critical - Story 127119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We're putting you at the front row now, Alex," the coach stated. Alex, who had always been the team's libero, in charge of defense. This change was a challenge to her identity and skills. Her throat tightened.

She felt exposed at the front, vulnerable to every hit, every block. She could feel the pressure of the new role. She felt the gaze of the coach and teammates. Each mistake seemed enormous.

She would spend hours after practice, practicing her blocks and spikes. She would replay every point in her mind, replaying the mistakes over and over. She felt a growing sense of shame. She began to isolate herself from the other players.

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