self-critical - Story 127208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a low-level irritation as Sophia surveyed the scene. Her car was gone. She felt a familiar burn of shame. She told herself she was a competent person, capable of navigating life's complexities. Apparently, she was wrong.

She picked at a loose thread on her jeans, her gaze drifting toward the messy pile of tools in the garage. She'd been meaning to organize that for weeks. Everything seemed to pile up around her, a constant testament to her inability to manage things effectively.

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