self-critical - Story 127204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Seriously?" Mark muttered, feeling his face burn. The tow truck was already disappearing down the street. He’d been so sure he was on top of things, so convinced he was finally getting his life together. Apparently not. He squinted at the offending sign: "No parking. Landscaping equipment." He'd left his leaf blower out.

He ran a hand over his face, feeling the stubble of the day's missed shave. It was always the small details that tripped him up, wasn't it? He was a walking disaster, a collection of half-finished projects and missed opportunities. The air felt thick and heavy, pressing down on him.

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