self-critical - Story 127237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shrunk to the size of her living room. Eleanor paced restlessly, the hardwood floor creaking under her weight. The diary entries, now online for all to see, were a brutal reminder of her past. She felt that she was back in that horrible high school environment.

She felt a persistent, throbbing headache. She couldn't eat, couldn't sleep. The very fabric of her life felt tainted by the exposure. The diary, once a safe space, now felt like a weapon turned against her.

She knew she should be strong, but the shame was a heavy, suffocating blanket. She was trapped, suffocating under a weight of her past.

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