self-critical - Story 127137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library was usually her sanctuary, but today it felt like a prison. Sarah hunched over a table, surrounded by the weight of unread books. The accusations of plagiarism hung over her head like a dark cloud.

She traced her finger along the spine of a book, her mind replaying the events that led to her downfall. She should have known better, she should have been more diligent. She felt like such a fool. The words on the page blurred, the sentences twisting into accusations.

Her breath hitched as she fought off a wave of nausea. She grabbed her bag and fled the library, the quiet sanctuary now a place she could no longer bear to be. Sunlight felt piercing on her face.

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