self-critical - Story 127150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The show is canceled." That was the text from the theater director. She hadn't shown up to rehearsal in weeks. Her voice was too quiet, her stage presence lacking. She had been given the lead role, but she couldn't stand the thought of anyone seeing her up there.

She picked up the script and hurled it across the room. She could never get the lines right, her performance clumsy, awkward. He tried to help her, give her tips, but her self-doubt had always seemed to get in the way.

She slumped onto her bed, the silence of her apartment amplifying her sense of failure. She had ruined everything with her insecurities. The thought of other people, those with talent, performing the role felt like a final blow.

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