self-critical - Story 127187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed to mock her. Anya stared at the unfinished canvas, the vibrant hues suddenly dull. Another call, another unanswered question. David’s avoidance had become a familiar companion. She felt she was the one who was the failure. She had failed to be everything he wanted her to be.

Her hands shook as she picked up a brush, the bristles heavy in her grip. The canvas was no longer a space for creation; it was a mirror reflecting her insecurities, her perceived inadequacies. The vibrant world around her was a reminder of her failings. She knew it.

She pushed the brush aside, disgusted with her work. She was too much, not enough, never right. She rubbed her eyes, trying to clear away the image of him on the phone, the smile she knew wasn’t meant for her.

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