self-critical - Story 127177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen, a segment on the local hospital’s new surgical wing. Across the room, Kevin, who had always boasted of his crucial role in designing the facility, sat frozen, his face ashen. The architect of record was clearly identified. Kevin was not mentioned.

A coldness seeped into her, a creeping paralysis that wrapped around her chest. She had always admired Kevin's ambition, his drive. Now, she felt a profound sense of disappointment, a deep sense of betrayal. She had shared so many dreams with him, built her life around his.

She glanced around the apartment, the home they had built together, and it felt like a stage set, the props somehow fake, the story hollow. The walls seemed to close in, and she longed for something true, something real. She could not breathe, and she had to leave.

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