self-critical - Story 127245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the unfamiliar name, the foreign medical history. A wave of shame washed over him, a cold tide that left him shivering. He'd messed up so many times before. This was just another entry on the ledger. He knew his mistakes.

He pulled his jacket tighter, as if to ward off the judgment he felt radiating from the blank wall across the room. It was him. He was the problem.

He needed to get away, to disappear.

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