self-critical - Story 127241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the hospital hallway seemed to amplify the tremor in Amelia's hands. She clutched the printout, a stranger's name staring back at her. Her heart hammered against her ribs, each beat a condemnation. It was a simple mistake, the nurse had said, a mix-up, easily rectified. But the details on the page… they were so wrong, so different from what she knew to be true. She had to be more careful, she thought, she should have paid better attention when the forms were filled out.

She ran a hand through her already dishevelled hair. Why couldn't she just be organized? This entire situation was because of her. She bit her lip until she tasted blood. It was always her.

Amelia’s apartment building looked even more depressing than usual, and as she stepped inside she winced at the state of the apartment. She really had to do something about the state of it, didn't she?

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